Dialogue

 1 Euthyf|         brought against his own father. The latter has originated
 2 Euthyf|      the command of Euthyphro’s father, who sent to the interpreters
 3 Euthyf|    Euthyphro brings against his father. Socrates is confident that
 4 Euthyf|       as I do, prosecuting your father (if he is guilty) on a charge
 5 Euthyf|       Doing as I do, charging a father with murder,’ may be a single
 6 Euthyf|       your chastisement of your father, Euthyphro, may be dear
 7 Euthyf|         chastisement on his own father), but not equally pleasing
 8 Euthyf|      you able to show that your father was guilty of murder, or
 9 Euthyf|         have prosecuted his old father. He is still hoping that
10 Euthyf|        right in prosecuting his father has ever entered into his
11 Euthyf|       in his prosecution of his father, who has accidentally been
12 Euthyf|        Who is he?~EUTHYPHRO: My father.~SOCRATES: Your father!
13 Euthyf|       My father.~SOCRATES: Your father! my good man?~EUTHYPHRO:
14 Euthyf|  suppose that the man whom your father murdered was one of your
15 Euthyf|       servants and slew him. My father bound him hand and foot
16 Euthyf|    diviner, he was dead. And my father and family are angry with
17 Euthyf|     murderer and prosecuting my father. They say that he did not
18 Euthyf|        impious who prosecutes a father. Which shows, Socrates,
19 Euthyf| bringing an action against your father?~EUTHYPHRO: The best of
20 Euthyf|       instructs, and of his old father whom he admonishes and chastises.
21 Euthyf|        crime—whether he be your father or mother, or whoever he
22 Euthyf|         admit that he bound his father (Cronos) because he wickedly
23 Euthyf|        too had punished his own father (Uranus) for a similar reason,
24 Euthyf|       when I proceed against my father, they are angry with me.
25 Euthyf|        as you do, charging your father with murder.~EUTHYPHRO:
26 Euthyf|         in thus chastising your father you may very likely be doing
27 Euthyf|    ought to proceed against his father and accuse him of murder.
28 Euthyf|          have charged your aged father with murder. You would not