Plato, Sophist, section 251a

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[251a] If, however, we are able to see neither of them, we will at any rate push our discussion through between both of them at once as creditably as we can.

Theaetetus
Good.

Stranger
Let us, then, explain how we come to be constantly calling this same thing by many names.

Theaetetus
What, for instance? Please give an example.

Stranger
We speak of man, you know, and give him many additional designations; we attribute to him colors and forms and sizes and vices and virtues,

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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