Dialogue

 1 Euthyf|     cases the act precedes the state; e.g. the act of being carried,
 2 Euthyf|       loved, etc. precedes the state of being carried, loved,
 3 Euthyf|       if not banished from the state, or whipped out of the assembly,
 4 Euthyf|        distinction between the state and the act, corresponding
 5 Euthyf|        The act is prior to the state (as in Aristotle the energeia
 6 Euthyf| precedes the dunamis); and the state of being loved is preceded
 7 Euthyf|        therefore piety and the state of being loved are different.
 8 Euthyf|     And of this our mother the state is to be the judge. Of all
 9 Euthyf|       at the foundation of the state. But in what way does he
10 Euthyf|     circumstances to be as you state them, you are not afraid
11 Euthyf|       which is carried in this state of carrying because it is
12 Euthyf|       led because it is in the state of being led, or carried
13 Euthyf|   carried because it is in the state of being carried, but the
14 Euthyf|        my meaning is, that any state of action or passion implies
15 Euthyf|       becoming, but it is in a state of becoming because it becomes;
16 Euthyf|      suffer because it is in a state of suffering, but it is
17 Euthyf|      suffering, but it is in a state of suffering because it
18 Euthyf|    that which is loved in some state either of becoming or suffering?~
19 Euthyf|        previous instances; the state of being loved follows the
20 Euthyf|     loved, and not the act the state.~EUTHYPHRO: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
21 Euthyf|     loved by them, and is in a state to be loved of them because