Dialogue

 1 Euthyf|         who has communicated his art to his descendants.~Socrates,
 2 Euthyf|          should suppose that the art of horsemanship is the art
 3 Euthyf|       art of horsemanship is the art of attending to horses?~
 4 Euthyf|    should also conceive that the art of the huntsman is the art
 5 Euthyf|       art of the huntsman is the art of attending to dogs?~EUTHYPHRO:
 6 Euthyf| EUTHYPHRO: Yes.~SOCRATES: As the art of the oxherd is the art
 7 Euthyf|         art of the oxherd is the art of attending to oxen?~EUTHYPHRO:
 8 Euthyf|         holiness or piety is the art of attending to the gods?—
 9 Euthyf|    attended to by the horseman’s art they are benefited and improved,
10 Euthyf|      benefited by the huntsman’s art, and the oxen by the art
11 Euthyf|         art, and the oxen by the art of the oxherd, and all other
12 Euthyf|       has been defined to be the art of attending to the gods,
13 Euthyf|     SOCRATES: Again, there is an art which ministers to the ship-builder
14 Euthyf|         SOCRATES: As there is an art which ministers to the house-builder
15 Euthyf|        my good friend, about the art which ministers to the gods:
16 Euthyf|        would be no meaning in an art which gives to any one that
17 Euthyf|          piety, Euthyphro, is an art which gods and men have