Plato, Sophist, section 219d

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[219d] all the arts, in which, Theaetetus, shall we place the art of angling?

Theaetetus
In acquisitive art, clearly.

Stranger
And are there not two classes of acquisitive art—one the class of exchange between voluntary agents by means of gifts and wages and purchases, and the other, which comprises all the rest of acquisitive art, and, since it coerces either by word or deed, might be called coercive?

Theaetetus
It appears so, at any rate, from what you have said.

Stranger
Well then, shall we not divide coercive art into two parts?

Theaetetus
In what way?

Stranger
By calling all the open part of it fighting

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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