Plato, Sophist, section 236d

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[236d] The fellow is really wonderful and very difficult to keep in sight, for once more, in the very cleverest manner he has withdrawn into a baffling classification where it is hard to track him.

Theaetetus
So it seems.

Stranger
Do you assent because you recognize the fact, or did the force of habit hurry you along to a speedy assent?

Theaetetus
What do you mean, and why did you say that?

Stranger
We are really, my dear friend, engaged in

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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