 The Sophist decisively marginalizes positive imitation when it takes up mimêsis a second time, subdividing the production of illusions to identify a species in which imitators use their own voice and bodies: “This part is called imitation [mimêsis]” (267a). The Eleatic Stranger who is speaking recognizes that he has appropriated the general word for the specific act of enacting false images. “Let’s designate this to be what we call the imitative profession [mimêtikon]”; everything else in the large genus can go by some other name (267a).