Plato, Gorgias, section 450a

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[450a]

Socrates
Now, does the medical art, which we mentioned just now, make men able to understand and speak about the sick?

Gorgias
It must.

Socrates
Hence the medical art also, it seems, is concerned with speech.

Gorgias
Yes.

Socrates
That is, speech about diseases?

Gorgias
Certainly.

Socrates
Now, is gymnastic also concerned with speech about the good and bad condition of our bodies?

Gorgias
Quite so.

Socrates
And moreover it is the same, Gorgias, with all the other arts;

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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