STRANGER: Let us admit this, then, to be the amatory art.

THEAETETUS: Certainly.

STRANGER: But that sort of hireling whose conversation is pleasing

and who baits his hook only with pleasure and exacts nothing but his

maintenance in return, we should all, if I am not mistaken, describe as

possessing flattery or an art of making things pleasant.

THEAETETUS: Certainly.

STRANGER: And that sort, which professes to form acquaintances only for

the sake of virtue, and demands a reward in the shape of money, may be

fairly called by another name?

THEAETETUS: To be sure.

STRANGER: And what is the name? Will you tell me?

THEAETETUS: It is obvious enough; for I believe that we have discovered

the Sophist: which is, as I conceive, the proper name for the class

described.

STRANGER: Then now, Theaetetus, his art may be traced as a branch of the

appropriative, acquisitive family--which hunts animals,--living--land--