Dialogue

 1 Euthyf|        same action may be both pious and impious; e.g. your chastisement
 2 Euthyf|      what all the gods love is pious, and what they all hate
 3 Euthyf|       is dear to them. But the pious or holy is loved by the
 4 Euthyf|      by the gods because it is pious or holy, which is equivalent
 5 Euthyf|    another manner: ‘Is all the pious just?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Is all the
 6 Euthyf|         Yes.’ ‘Is all the just pious?’ ‘No.’ ‘Then what part
 7 Euthyf|        made better. But how do pious or holy acts make the gods
 8 Euthyf|      explains that he means by pious acts, acts of service or
 9 Euthyf|   preceded by the act of being pious, not by the act of being
10 Euthyf|      of religion and of things pious and impious so very exact,
11 Euthyf|      that there are many other pious acts?~EUTHYPHRO: There are.~
12 Euthyf|   general idea which makes all pious things to be pious. Do you
13 Euthyf|   makes all pious things to be pious. Do you not recollect that
14 Euthyf|       impious impious, and the pious pious?~EUTHYPHRO: I remember.~
15 Euthyf| impious impious, and the pious pious?~EUTHYPHRO: I remember.~
16 Euthyf|     such and such an action is pious, such another impious.~EUTHYPHRO:
17 Euthyf|   which is dear to the gods is pious, and that thing or person
18 Euthyf|     things, Euthyphro, will be pious and also impious?~EUTHYPHRO:
19 Euthyf|    tell me what action is both pious and impious: but now it
20 Euthyf|    impious, and what they love pious or holy; and what some of
21 Euthyf|      what all the gods love is pious and holy, and the opposite
22 Euthyf|      understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the
23 Euthyf|        SOCRATES: Because it is pious or holy, or for some other
24 Euthyf|      then—Is not that which is pious necessarily just?~EUTHYPHRO:
25 Euthyf|        then, all which is just pious? or, is that which is pious
26 Euthyf|    pious? or, is that which is pious all just, but that which
27 Euthyf|      only in part and not all, pious?~EUTHYPHRO: I do not understand
28 Euthyf| whether the just is always the pious, or the pious always the
29 Euthyf|       always the pious, or the pious always the just; and whether
30 Euthyf|    only ask again, what is the pious, and what is piety? Do you
31 Euthyf|        saying that the holy or pious was not the same with that