Dialogue

 1 Euthyf|      amend the definition, and say that ‘what all the gods
 2 Euthyf|      time; and he would rather say simply that piety is knowing
 3 Euthyf|      to many others who do not say what they think with equal
 4 Euthyf|       and feeling. He means to say that the words ‘loved of
 5 Euthyf|        But in what way does he say that you corrupt the young?~
 6 Euthyf|     which occasionally, as you say, comes to you. He thinks
 7 Euthyf|  madman. Yet every word that I say is true. But they are jealous
 8 Euthyf|      or other, perhaps, as you say, from jealousy, they are
 9 Euthyf|     this way.~SOCRATES: I dare say not, for you are reserved
10 Euthyf|       only laugh at me, as you say that they laugh at you,
11 Euthyf|     predict.~EUTHYPHRO: I dare say that the affair will end
12 Euthyf|    prosecuting my father. They say that he did not kill him,
13 Euthyf|       shall challenge him, and say that I have always had a
14 Euthyf|       You, Meletus, as I shall say to him, acknowledge Euthyphro
15 Euthyf|     but of the old; that is to say, of myself whom he instructs,
16 Euthyf|      have a great deal more to say to him than to me.~SOCRATES:
17 Euthyf|      as I am doing; that is to say, prosecuting any one who
18 Euthyf|        wisdom. What else can I say, confessing as I do, that
19 Euthyf|     and the like, as the poets say, and as you may see represented
20 Euthyf|    amaze you.~SOCRATES: I dare say; and you shall tell me them
21 Euthyf|        then I shall be able to say that such and such an action
22 Euthyf|   wanted. But whether what you say is true or not I cannot
23 Euthyf|       with one another? I dare say the answer does not occur
24 Euthyf| differences of opinion, as you say, about good and evil, just
25 Euthyf|    true.~SOCRATES: But, as you say, people regard the same
26 Euthyf|     EUTHYPHRO: I should rather say that these are the questions
27 Euthyf|      which they will not do or say in their own defence.~SOCRATES:
28 Euthyf|      guilt, Euthyphro, and yet say that they ought not to be
29 Euthyf|   which they do not venture to say and do: for they do not
30 Euthyf|       unjust, and some of them say while others deny that injustice
31 Euthyf|       man will ever venture to say that the doer of injustice
32 Euthyf|        understand; you mean to say that I am not so quick of
33 Euthyf|        definition so far as to say that what all the gods hate
34 Euthyf|       EUTHYPHRO: Yes, I should say that what all the gods love
35 Euthyf|    that of others? What do you say?~EUTHYPHRO: We should enquire;
36 Euthyf|      SOCRATES: And what do you say of piety, Euthyphro: is
37 Euthyf|  Socrates?~SOCRATES: I mean to say that the holy has been acknowledged
38 Euthyf|  propounder of them, you might say that my arguments walk away
39 Euthyf|        Socrates, I shall still say that you are the Daedalus
40 Euthyf|         SOCRATES: I should not say that where there is fear
41 Euthyf|       reverence; and we should say, where there is reverence
42 Euthyf|        improve them? Would you say that when you do a holy
43 Euthyf|      some object—would you not say of health?~EUTHYPHRO: I
44 Euthyf|    must surely know if, as you say, you are of all men living
45 Euthyf|     easily told. Would you not say that victory in war is the
46 Euthyf|        tiresome. Let me simply say that piety or holiness is
47 Euthyf|    therefore nothing which you say will be thrown away upon
48 Euthyf|      them?~EUTHYPHRO: I should say that nothing could be dearer.~
49 Euthyf|         SOCRATES: And when you say this, can you wonder at