Plato, Sophist, section 239c

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[239c]

Theaetetus
But I should be possessed of great and absurd eagerness for the attempt, if I were to undertake it with your experience before my eyes.

Stranger
Well, if you like, let us say no more of you and me; but until we find someone who can accomplish this, let us confess that the sophist has in most rascally fashion hidden himself in a place we cannot explore.

Theaetetus
That seems to be decidedly the case.

Stranger
And so, if we say he has an art, as it were, of making appearances,

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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