Plato, Gorgias, section 476d

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[476d] the cut made in the thing cut is such as the cutter cuts it?

Polus
Apparently.

Socrates
Then putting it all in a word, see if you agree that what I was just saying applies to all cases—that the patient receives an effect of the same kind as the agentÕs action.

Polus
I do agree.

Socrates
Then this being admitted, is paying the penalty suffering something, or doing it?

Polus
Suffering it must be, Socrates.

Socrates
And at the hands of an agent?

Polus
Yes, of course; at the hands of the punisher.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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