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Str. Of course they exist. And we must pass over the hunting of lifeless things, which has no name, with the exception of some kinds of diving and the like, which are of little importance; but the hunting of living things we will call animal-hunting.
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Theaet. Very well.
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Str. And two classes of animal-hunting might properly be made, one (and this is divided under many classes and names) the hunting of creatures that go on their feet, land-animal hunting, and the other that of swimming creatures, to be called, as a whole, water-animal hunting?
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Theaet. Certainly.
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Str. And of swimming creatures we see that one tribe is winged and the other is in the water?
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Theaet. Of course.
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Str. And the hunting of winged creatures is called, as a whole, fowling.
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Theaet. It is.
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Str. And the hunting of water creatures goes by the general name of fishing.
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Theaet. Yes.
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Str. And might I not divide this kind of hunting into two principal divisions?
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Theaet. What divisions?
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Str. The one carries on the hunt by means of enclosures merely, the other by a blow.
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Theaet. What do you mean, and how do you distinguish the two?
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Str. As regards the first, because whatever surrounds anything and encloses it so as to constrain it is properly called an enclosure.
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Theaet. Certainly.
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Str. May not, then, wicker baskets and seines and snares and nets and the like be called enclosures?
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Theaet. Assuredly.
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Str. Then we will call this division hunting by enclosures, or something of that sort.
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Theaet. Yes.
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Str. 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— call striking; or could a better name be found, Theaetetus?
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Theaet. Never mind the name; that will do well enough.
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Str. Then the kind of striking which takes place at night by the light of a fire is, I suppose, called by the hunters themselves fire-hunting.
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Theaet. To be sure.
