Plato, Sophist, section 255e

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[255e] among the classes in which we select our examples.

Theaetetus
Yes.

Stranger
And we shall say that it permeates them all; for each of them is other than the rest, not by reason of its own nature, but because it partakes of the idea of the other.

Theaetetus
Exactly.

Stranger
Let us now state our conclusions, taking up the five classes one at a time.

Theaetetus
How?

Stranger
Take motion first; we say that it is entirely other than rest, do we not?

Theaetetus
We do.

Stranger
Then it is not rest.

Theaetetus
Not at all.

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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