Plato, Statesman, section 260a

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[260a]

Stranger
So he may fairly be said to participate in intellectual science.

Younger Socrates
Certainly.

Stranger
But it is his business, I suppose, not to pass judgement and be done with it and go away, as the calculator did, but to give each of the workmen the proper orders, until they have finished their appointed task.

Younger Socrates
You are right.

Stranger
Then all such sciences, and all those that are in the class with calculating, are alike intellectual sciences,

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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