Dialogue

 1 Intro|      had become eclecticism and imitation: in the decline of Greek
 2 Intro|        at a small cost. For all imitation is a jest, and the most
 3 Intro| falsehood, or false opinion, or imitation, without falling into a
 4 Intro|     that image-making may be an imitation of realities or an imitation
 5 Intro|    imitation of realities or an imitation of appearances, which last
 6 Intro|       may be again divided into imitation by the help of instruments
 7 Intro|        will venture to call the imitation of science, and the latter
 8 Intro|     science, and the latter the imitation of opinion.~The latter is
 9  Soph|         and there is the art of imitation—all these may be appropriately
10  Soph|      graceful form of jest than imitation?~THEAETETUS: Certainly not;
11  Soph|  THEAETETUS: Certainly not; and imitation is a very comprehensive
12  Soph|    until in some sub-section of imitation he is caught. For our method
13  Soph|      not this always the aim of imitation?~STRANGER: Not always; in
14  Soph|         in painting, and in all imitation.~THEAETETUS: Of course.~
15  Soph|        the art of creation; for imitation is a kind of creation—of
16  Soph|       and the image, with which imitation is concerned.~THEAETETUS:
17  Soph|        his figure or his voice, imitation is the name for this part
18  Soph|   STRANGER: Was not the sort of imitation of which we spoke just now
19  Soph|     which we spoke just now the imitation of those who know? For he
20  Soph|      will make bold to call the imitation which coexists with opinion,
21  Soph|      coexists with opinion, the imitation of appearance—that which
22  Soph|         a scientific or learned imitation.~THEAETETUS: Granted.~STRANGER: