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Stranger
Str. Then since acquisitive and productive art comprise all the arts, in which, Theaetetus, shall we place the art of angling?
Theaetetus
Theaet. In acquisitive art, clearly.
Stranger
Str. And are there not two classes of acquisitive art—one the class of exchange between voluntary agents by means of gifts and wages and purchases, and the other, which comprises all the rest of acquisitive art, and, since it coerces either by word or deed, might be called coercive?
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Theaetetus
Theaet. It appears so, at any rate, from what you have said.
Stranger
Str. Well then, shall we not divide coercive art into two parts?
Theaetetus
Theaet. In what way?
Stranger
Str. By calling all the open part of it fighting and all the secret part hunting.
Theaetetus
Theaet. Yes.
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Stranger
Str. But it would be unreasonable not to divide hunting into two parts.
Theaetetus
Theaet. Say how it can be done.
Stranger
Str. By dividing it into the hunting of the lifeless and of the living.
Theaetetus
Theaet. Certainly, if both exist.
Stranger
Str. Of course they exist. And we must pass over the hunting of lifeless things, which has no name, with the exception of some kinds of diving and the like, which are of little importance; but the hunting of living things we will call animal-hunting.
Theaetetus
Theaet. Very well.
Stranger
Str. And two classes of animal-hunting might properly be made, one (and this is divided under many classes and names) the hunting of creatures that go on their feet, land-animal hunting, and the other that of swimming creatures, to be called, as a whole, water-animal hunting?
Theaetetus
Theaet. Certainly.
