Dialogue

 1 Intro|           madman who professed an art which he did not know; but
 2 Intro|        illusion of distance. Some art of mensuration is required
 3 Intro|       their true proportion. This art of mensuration is a kind
 4 Intro|           a most perfect piece of art. There are dramatic contrasts
 5 Intro|         and false, but of the old art of rhetoric and the new
 6  Prot|         that he presides over the art which makes men eloquent?~
 7  Prot|         and conspiracies. Now the art of the Sophist is, as I
 8  Prot|        meaning that you teach the art of politics, and that you
 9  Prot|         do indeed possess a noble art, if there is no mistake
10  Prot|         have a doubt whether this art is capable of being taught,
11  Prot|           am of opinion that this art cannot be taught or communicated
12  Prot|          to have any skill in the art, even though he be good-looking,
13  Prot|           carried off Hephaestus’ art of working by fire, and
14  Prot|     working by fire, and also the art of Athene, and gave them
15  Prot|     comparison of them, and their art was only sufficient to provide
16  Prot|           had, but not as yet the art of government, of which
17  Prot|          government, of which the art of war is a part. After
18  Prot|      gathered together, having no art of government, they evil
19  Prot|          medicine or of any other art for many unskilled ones? ‘
20  Prot|           or any other mechanical art, allow but a few to share
21  Prot|           or skilful in any other art in which he has no skill,
22  Prot|       quality or unity is not the art of the carpenter, or the
23  Prot|     freely teaching everybody the art, both in private and public,
24  Prot|         and unacquainted with the art of flute-playing? In like
25  Prot|         of our artisans this same art which they have learned
26  Prot|      Clearly the knowledge of the art of healing the sick. ‘But
27  Prot| confidence may be given to men by art, and also, like ability,
28  Prot|         human life? Would not the art of measuring be the saving
29  Prot|         the latter that deceiving art which makes us wander up
30  Prot|          great and small? But the art of measurement would do
31  Prot|    generally acknowledge that the art which accomplishes this
32  Prot|   accomplishes this result is the art of measurement?~Yes, he
33  Prot|    measurement?~Yes, he said, the art of measurement.~Suppose,
34  Prot|        must undeniably also be an art and science?~They will agree,
35  Prot|          said.~The nature of that art or science will be a matter
36  Prot|           the cause, and that the art of which I am speaking cannot