I mean to give something as slight and inexpensive as possible; but I have been so long out of the way of these things, that I am really quite at a loss, and must throw myself on your kindness, as I hope you will be with me, and also Mr. and Mrs. Gooch. You must arrange in such a manner as not to blush for your owncontrivances.
2005,Plato, translated by Lesley Brown,Sophist, page266b:
And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlikecontrivance.
