rods:--What is the right name of that mode of fishing, Theaetetus?

THEAETETUS: I suspect that we have now discovered the object of our

search.

STRANGER: Then now you and I have come to an understanding not only

about the name of the angler's art, but about the definition of

the thing itself. One half of all art was acquisitive--half of the

acquisitive art was conquest or taking by force, half of this was

hunting, and half of hunting was hunting animals, half of this was

hunting water animals--of this again, the under half was fishing, half

of fishing was striking; a part of striking was fishing with a barb,

and one half of this again, being the kind which strikes with a hook

and draws the fish from below upwards, is the art which we have been

seeking, and which from the nature of the operation is denoted angling

or drawing up (aspalieutike, anaspasthai).

THEAETETUS: The result has been quite satisfactorily brought out.

STRANGER: And now, following this pattern, let us endeavour to find out

what a Sophist is.

THEAETETUS: By all means.

STRANGER: The first question about the angler was, whether he was a

skilled artist or unskilled?