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Stranger
Str. One is the hunting of tame, the other of wild creatures.
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Theaetetus
Theaet. Is there, then, a hunting of tame creatures?
Stranger
Str. Yes, If man is a tame animal; but make any assumption you like, that there is no tame animal, or that some other tame animal exists but man is a wild one or that man is tame but there is no hunting of man. For the purpose of our definition choose whichever of these statements you think is satisfactory to you.
Theaetetus
Theaet. Why, Stranger, I think we are a tame animal, and I agree that there is a hunting of man.
Stranger
Str. Let us, then, say that the hunting of tame animals is also of two kinds.
Theaetetus
Theaet. How do we justify that assertion?
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Stranger
Str. By defining piracy, man-stealing, tyranny, and the whole art of war all collectively as hunting by force.
Theaetetus
Theaet. Excellent.
Stranger
Str. And by giving the art of the law courts, of the public platform, and of conversation also a single name and calling them all collectively an art of persuasion.
Theaetetus
Theaet. Correct.
Stranger
Str. Now let us say that there are two kinds of persuasion.
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Theaetetus
Theaet. What kinds?
Stranger
Str. The one has to do with private persons, the other with the community.
Theaetetus
Theaet. Granted; each of them does form a class.
Stranger
Str. Then again of the hunting of private persons one kind receives pay, and the other brings gifts, does it not?
Theaetetus
Theaet. I do not understand.
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Stranger
Str. Apparently you have never yet paid attention to the lovers’ method of hunting.
Theaetetus
Theaet. In what respect?
Stranger
Str. That in addition to their other efforts they give presents to those whom they hunt.
