Plato, Sophist, section 226e

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[226e]

Stranger
And could not anyone see that purification is of two kinds?

Theaetetus
Yes, perhaps, in time; but still I do not see it now.

Stranger
Still there are many kinds of purifications of bodies, and they may all properly be included under one name.

Theaetetus
What are they and what is the name?

Stranger
The purification of living creatures, having to do with impurities within the body, such as are successfully discriminated by gymnastics and medicine,

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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