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Stranger
Str. But we must, it seems, assume that he has an art of some kind.
Theaetetus
Theaet. Well, then, what in the world is this art that he has?
Stranger
Str. Good gracious! Have we failed to notice that the man is akin to the other man?
Theaetetus
Theaet. Who is akin to whom?
Stranger
Str. The angler to the sophist.
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Theaetetus
Theaet. How so?
Stranger
Str. They both seem clearly to me to be a sort of hunters.
Theaetetus
Theaet. What is the hunting of the second? We have spoken about the first.
Stranger
Str. We just now divided hunting as a whole into two classes, and made one division that of swimming creatures and the other that of land-hunting.
Theaetetus
Theaet. Yes.
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Stranger
Str. And the one we discussed, so far as the swimming creatures that live in the water are concerned; but we left the land-hunting undivided, merely remarking that it has many forms.
Theaetetus
Theaet. Certainly.
Stranger
Str. Now up to that point the sophist and the angler proceed together from the starting-point of acquisitive art.
Theaetetus
Theaet. I think they do.
Stranger
Str. But they separate at the point of animal-hunting, where the one turns to the sea and rivers and lakes to hunt the animals in those.
Theaetetus
Theaet. To be sure.
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Stranger
Str. But the other turns toward the land and to rivers of a different kind—rivers of wealth and youth, bounteous meadows, as it were—and he intends to coerce the creatures in them.
Theaetetus
Theaet. What do you mean?
Stranger
Str. Of land-hunting there are two chief divisions.
Theaetetus
Theaet. What are they?
