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[220e]

Theaetetus
Yes, it is so called.

Stranger
Then of striking which belongs to barb-hunting, that part which proceeds downward from above, is called, because tridents are chiefly used in it, tridentry, I suppose.

Theaetetus
Yes, some people, at any rate, call it so.

Stranger
Then there still remains, I may say, only one further kind.

Theaetetus
What is that?

Stranger
The kind that is characterized by the opposite sort of blow, which is practised with a hook and strikes, not any chance part of the body of the fishes,


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