Theaetetus: Certainly.
Stranger: Thus far, then, the Sophist and the angler, starting from the art of acquiring, take the same road?
Theaetetus: So it would appear.
Stranger: Their paths diverge when they reach the art of animal hunting; the one going to the seashore, and to the rivers and to the lakes, and angling for the animals which are in them.
Theaetetus: Very true.
Stranger: While the other goes to land and water of another sort—rivers of wealth and broad meadow-lands of generous youth; and he also is intending to take the animals which are in them.
Theaetetus: What do you mean?
Stranger: Of hunting on land there are two principal divisions.
Theaetetus: What are they?
Stranger: One is the hunting of tame, and the other of wild animals.
Theaetetus: But are tame animals ever hunted?
Stranger: Yes, if you include man under tame animals. But if you like you may say that there are no tame animals, or that, if there are, man is not among them; or you may say that man is a tame animal but is not hunted—you shall decide which of these alternatives you prefer.
Theaetetus: I should say, Stranger, that man is a tame animal, and I admit that he is hunted.
Stranger: Then let us divide the hunting of tame animals into two parts.
Theaetetus: How shall we make the division?
Stranger: Let us define piracy, man-stealing, tyranny, the whole military art, by one name, as hunting with violence.
Theaetetus: Very good.
Stranger: But the art of the lawyer, of the popular orator, and the art of conversation may be called in one word the art of persuasion.
Theaetetus: True.
Stranger: And of persuasion, there may be said to be two kinds?
Theaetetus: What are they?
Stranger: One is private, and the other public.
Theaetetus: Yes; each of them forms a class.
Stranger: And of private hunting, one sort receives hire, and the other brings gifts.
Theaetetus: I do not understand you.