Plato, Sophist, section 262e

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[262e] but some of them do fit and form discourse.

Theaetetus
Certainly.

Stranger
Now there is another little point.

Theaetetus
What is it?

Stranger
A sentence, if it is to be a sentence, must have a subject; without a subject it is impossible.

Theaetetus
True.

Stranger
And it must also be of some quality, must it not?

Theaetetus
Of course.

Stranger
Now let us pay attention to each other.

Theaetetus
Yes, at any rate we ought to do so.

Stranger
Now, then, I will speak a sentence to you in which a action and the result of action are combined by means of a noun and a verb, and whatever the subject of the sentence is do you tell me.

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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