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Πολιτικός Plato

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Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. That is perfectly correct.
Stranger
Str. Let us next reflect that a person might think that this description of the art of weaving was satisfactory, because he cannot understand that it has not yet been distinguished from the closely co-operative arts, though it has been separated from many other kindred arts.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. What kindred arts?
Stranger
Str. You do not seem to have followed what I have been saying; so I think I had better go back again and begin at the end. For if you understand what I mean by kinship, we distinguished from clothing something akin to it a moment ago when we separated rugs from it by the distinction between spreading under and wrapping round.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. I understand. 5
Stranger
Str. And we removed the entire manufacture of cloth made from flax and broom-cords and all that we just now called vegetable fibres; and then, too, we separated off the process of felting and the kind of joining that employs piercing and sewing, most important of which is the shoemaker’s art.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Yes, to be sure.

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