THEAETETUS: Never mind the name--what you suggest will do very well.

STRANGER: There is one mode of striking, which is done at night, and by

the light of a fire, and is by the hunters themselves called firing, or

spearing by firelight.

THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: And the fishing by day is called by the general name of

barbing, because the spears, too, are barbed at the point.

THEAETETUS: Yes, that is the term.

STRANGER: Of this barb-fishing, that which strikes the fish who is below

from above is called spearing, because this is the way in which the

three-pronged spears are mostly used.

THEAETETUS: Yes, it is often called so.

STRANGER: Then now there is only one kind remaining.

THEAETETUS: What is that?

STRANGER: When a hook is used, and the fish is not struck in any chance

part of his body, as he is with the spear, but only about the head

and mouth, and is then drawn out from below upwards with reeds and

Sophist