Plato, Sophist, section 222e

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[222e]

Stranger
That in addition to their other efforts they give presents to those whom they hunt.

Theaetetus
You are quite right.

Stranger
Let us, then, call this the amatory art.

Theaetetus
Agreed.

Stranger
But that part of the paid kind which converses to furnish gratification and makes pleasure exclusively its bait and demands as its pay only maintenance, we might all agree, if I am not mistaken,

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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