Plato, Sophist, section 263a

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[263a]

Theaetetus
I will, to the best of my ability.

Stranger
“Theaetetus sits.” It isn't a long sentence, is it?

Theaetetus
No, it is fairly short.

Stranger
Now it is for you to say what it is about and what its subject is.

Theaetetus
Clearly it is about me, and I am its subject.

Stranger
And how about this sentence?

Theaetetus
What one?

Stranger
“Theaetetus, with whom I am now talking, flies.”

Theaetetus
Every one would agree that this also is about me and I am its subject.

Stranger
But we agree that every sentence must have some quality.

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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