Plato, Sophist, section 224c

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[224c] the part which has to do with the knowledge of the other arts should be called by one name, and that which has to do with virtue by another.

Theaetetus
Of course.

Stranger
The name of art-merchant would fit the one who trades in the other arts, and now do you be so good as to tell the name of him who trades in virtue.

Theaetetus
And what other name could one give, without making a mistake, than that which is the object of our present investigation—the sophist?

Stranger
No other. Come then, let us now summarize the matter by saying that sophistry has appeared a second time as that part of acquisitive art, art of exchange,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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