Plato, Sophist, section 220c

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[220c] so as to constrain it is properly called an enclosure.

Theaetetus
Certainly.

Stranger
May not, then, wicker baskets and seines and snares and nets and the like be called enclosures?

Theaetetus
Assuredly.

Stranger
Then we will call this division hunting by enclosures, or something of that sort.

Theaetetus
Yes.

Stranger
And the other, which is done with a blow, by means of hooks and three pronged spears, we must now—to name it with a single word—

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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