Plato, Sophist, section 231d

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[231d] the number of forms in which the sophist has appeared to us. First, I believe, he was found to be a paid hunter after the young and wealthy.

Theaetetus
Yes.

Stranger
And secondly a kind of merchant in articles of knowledge for the soul.

Theaetetus
Certainly.

Stranger
And thirdly did he not turn up as a retailer of these same articles of knowledge?

Theaetetus
Yes, and fourthly we found he was a seller of his own productions of knowledge.

Stranger
Your memory is good; but I will try to recall the fifth case myself. He was an athlete

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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