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Stranger
Str. And of swimming creatures we see that one tribe is winged and the other is in the water?
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Theaetetus
Theaet. Of course.
Stranger
Str. And the hunting of winged creatures is called, as a whole, fowling.
Theaetetus
Theaet. It is.
Stranger
Str. And the hunting of water creatures goes by the general name of fishing.
Theaetetus
Theaet. Yes.
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Stranger
Str. And might I not divide this kind of hunting into two principal divisions?
Theaetetus
Theaet. What divisions?
Stranger
Str. The one carries on the hunt by means of enclosures merely, the other by a blow.
Theaetetus
Theaet. What do you mean, and how do you distinguish the two?
Stranger
Str. As regards the first, because whatever surrounds anything and encloses it so as to constrain it is properly called an enclosure.
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Theaetetus
Theaet. Certainly.
Stranger
Str. May not, then, wicker baskets and seines and snares and nets and the like be called enclosures?
Theaetetus
Theaet. Assuredly.
Stranger
Str. Then we will call this division hunting by enclosures, or something of that sort.
Theaetetus
Theaet. Yes.
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Stranger
Str. And the other, which is done with a blow, by means of hooks and three pronged spears, we must now—to name it with a single word— call striking; or could a better name be found, Theaetetus?
Theaetetus
Theaet. Never mind the name; that will do well enough.
Stranger
Str. Then the kind of striking which takes place at night by the light of a fire is, I suppose, called by the hunters themselves fire-hunting.
Theaetetus
Theaet. To be sure.
