persist in looking for him in the class of false workers and magicians,

you see that the handles for objection and the difficulties which will

arise are very numerous and obvious.

THEAETETUS: They are indeed.

STRANGER: We have gone through but a very small portion of them, and

they are really infinite.

THEAETETUS: If that is the case, we cannot possibly catch the Sophist.

STRANGER: Shall we then be so faint-hearted as to give him up?

THEAETETUS: Certainly not, I should say, if we can get the slightest

hold upon him.

STRANGER: Will you then forgive me, and, as your words imply, not be

altogether displeased if I flinch a little from the grasp of such a

sturdy argument?

THEAETETUS: To be sure I will.

STRANGER: I have a yet more urgent request to make.

THEAETETUS: Which is--?