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Theaetetus
Theaet. You are quite right.
Stranger
Str. Let us, then, call this the amatory art.
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Theaetetus
Theaet. Agreed.
Stranger
Str. But that part of the paid kind which converses to furnish gratification and makes pleasure exclusively its bait and demands as its pay only maintenance, we might all agree, if I am not mistaken, to call the art of flattery or of making things pleasant.
Theaetetus
Theaet. Certainly.
Stranger
Str. But the class which proposes to carry on its conversations for the sake of virtue and demands its pay in cash—does not this deserve to be called by another name?
Theaetetus
Theaet. Of course.
Stranger
Str. And what is that name? Try to tell.
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Theaetetus
Theaet. It is obvious; for I think we have discovered the sophist. And therefore by uttering that word I think I should give him the right name.
Stranger
Str. Then, as it seems, according to our present reasoning, Theaetetus, the part of appropriative, coercive, hunting art which hunts animals, land animals, tame animals, man, privately, for pay, is paid in cash, claims to give education, and is a hunt after rich and promising youths, must—so our present argument concludes—be called sophistry.
Theaetetus
Theaet. Most assuredly.
Stranger
Str. But let us look at it in still another way; for the class we are now examining partakes of no mean art, but of a very many-sided one. And we must indeed do so, for in our previous talk it presents an appearance of being, not what we now say it is, but another class.
Theaetetus
Theaet. How so?
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Stranger
Str. The acquisitive art was of two sorts, the one the division of hunting, the other that of exchange.
