already.

THEAETETUS: How do you mean?

STRANGER: I mean to say that you should make a vertical division of

production or invention, as you have already made a lateral one.

THEAETETUS: I have done so.

STRANGER: Then, now, there are in all four parts or segments--two of

them have reference to us and are human, and two of them have reference

to the gods and are divine.

THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: And, again, in the division which was supposed to be made in

the other way, one part in each subdivision is the making of the things

themselves, but the two remaining parts may be called the making of

likenesses; and so the productive art is again divided into two parts.

THEAETETUS: Tell me the divisions once more.

STRANGER: I suppose that we, and the other animals, and the elements out

of which things are made--fire, water, and the like--are known by us to

be each and all the creation and work of God.

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