THEAETETUS: Yes.

STRANGER: And animal hunting may be truly said to have two divisions,

land-animal hunting, which has many kinds and names, and water-animal

hunting, or the hunting after animals who swim?

THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: And of swimming animals, one class lives on the wing and the

other in the water?

THEAETETUS: Certainly.

STRANGER: Fowling is the general term under which the hunting of all

birds is included.

THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: The hunting of animals who live in the water has the general

name of fishing.

THEAETETUS: Yes.

STRANGER: And this sort of hunting may be further divided also into two

principal kinds?

Sophist