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  1 Euthyf|            in this little Dialogue: (1) the dialectical development
  2 Euthyf|   development of the idea of piety; (2) the antithesis of true
  3 Euthyf|              a certain extent only; (3) the defence of Socrates.~
  4 Euthyf|          tales which Socrates cannot abide; and his dislike of them,
  5 Euthyf|             all the gods condemn and abominate such an action. But I will
  6 Euthyf|           you show that all the gods absolutely agree in approving of his
  7 Euthyf|              Euthyphro, or simply to accept the mere statement on our
  8 Euthyf|        Cronos or Uranus, and what is acceptable to Hephaestus but unacceptable
  9 Euthyf|          been giving an attribute or accident of piety only, and not the
 10 Euthyf|              the distinction between accidental homicide and murder: that
 11 Euthyf|   prosecution of his father, who has accidentally been guilty of homicide,
 12       | according
 13 Euthyf|            to learn all these things accurately will be very tiresome. Let
 14 Euthyf|      SOCRATES: He brings a wonderful accusation against me, which at first
 15 Euthyf|               as I shall say to him, acknowledge Euthyphro to be a great
 16 Euthyf|           say that the holy has been acknowledged by us to be loved of God
 17 Euthyf|           not the essence. Euthyphro acknowledges himself that his explanations
 18 Euthyf|           which is carried up to the Acropolis at the great Panathenaea,
 19 Euthyf|           and by which I may measure actions, whether yours or those
 20 Euthyf|               To this the soothsayer adds the ceremonial element, ‘
 21 Euthyf|    corresponding respectively to the adjective (philon) and the participle (
 22 Euthyf|            impiety. And therefore, I adjure you to tell me the nature
 23 Euthyf|            why not. But whether this admission will greatly assist you
 24 Euthyf|            of his old father whom he admonishes and chastises. And if Meletus
 25 Euthyf|             we have very greatly the advantage of them.~EUTHYPHRO: And
 26 Euthyf|      morality, which the great poets Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Pindar had
 27 Euthyf|            holy loved of God, as you affirm; but they are two different
 28 Euthyf|       question, and which by some is affirmed to be just, by others to
 29       | afterwards
 30 Euthyf|              serf, have charged your aged father with murder. You
 31 Euthyf|              likely be doing what is agreeable to Zeus but disagreeable
 32 Euthyf|          impious.’ To this Euthyphro agrees.~Socrates proceeds to analyze
 33 Euthyf|  suitableness of this little work to aid Socrates at the time of
 34 Euthyf|           attacking you he is simply aiming a blow at the foundation
 35 Euthyf|          seem to be altogether three aims or interests in this little
 36 Euthyf|           and must go now.~SOCRATES: Alas! my companion, and will
 37 Euthyf|              we do quarrel? (Compare Alcib.)~EUTHYPHRO: Yes, Socrates,
 38 Euthyf|             particulars—gods and men alike; and, if they dispute at
 39       | alone
 40 Euthyf|            himself.~There seem to be altogether three aims or interests
 41 Euthyf|           the gods which would quite amaze you.~SOCRATES: I dare say;
 42 Euthyf|     prosecuting him.~EUTHYPHRO: I am amused, Socrates, at your making
 43 Euthyf|               at the same time he is amusingly confident that he has weapons
 44 Euthyf|         agrees.~Socrates proceeds to analyze the new form of the definition.
 45 Euthyf|        difference creates enmity and anger? Suppose for example that
 46 Euthyf|         necessarily dependent on the answerer, whither he leads I must
 47 Euthyf|            of their sons).~Euthyphro answers that there is no difference
 48 Euthyf|              Socrates points out the anthropomorphism of these notions, (compare
 49 Euthyf|             Pindar had unconsciously anticipated, and which is the universal
 50 Euthyf|              good;’ and Socrates was anticipating another opportunity of talking
 51 Euthyf|           the idea of piety; (2) the antithesis of true and false religion,
 52 Euthyf|            INTRODUCTION~In the Meno, Anytus had parted from Socrates
 53 Euthyf|           subtle connection with the Apology and the Crito; the holding
 54 Euthyf|              any rate were not to be appealed to as authorities in religion;
 55 Euthyf|           kind to be loved. Thus you appear to me, Euthyphro, when I
 56 Euthyf|         Perhaps you may remember his appearance; he has a beak, and long
 57 Euthyf|           kingly science has already appeared in the Euthydemus, and will
 58 Euthyf|             that they do, and I will applaud your wisdom as long as I
 59 Euthyf|              not to scorn me, but to apply your mind to the utmost,
 60 Euthyf|      priestly office. His failure to apprehend an argument may be compared
 61 Euthyf|            that I am not so quick of apprehension as the judges: for to them
 62 Euthyf|        nature of morals and religion arises out of the difficulty of
 63 Euthyf|            prior to the state (as in Aristotle the energeia precedes the
 64 Euthyf|              Do we not go at once to arithmetic, and put an end to them
 65 Euthyf|            he has weapons in his own armoury which would be more than
 66 Euthyf|              another and far greater artist than Daedalus who makes
 67 Euthyf|    represented in the works of great artists? The temples are full of
 68 Euthyf|              the point, did you turn aside? Had you only answered me
 69 Euthyf|         nature of piety. Now, as the asker of a question is necessarily
 70 Euthyf|              I cannot do better than assent to your superior wisdom.
 71 Euthyf|             the same case, if as you assert they quarrel about just
 72 Euthyf|          this admission will greatly assist you in the task of instructing
 73 Euthyf|        either case, if you knowingly associate with the murderer when you
 74 Euthyf|              a murderer; but you are assuming the point at issue. If all
 75 Euthyf|              and notably the robe of Athene, which is carried up to
 76 Euthyf|    understand, Socrates; he means to attack you about the familiar sign
 77 Euthyf|         truth. My opinion is that in attacking you he is simply aiming
 78 Euthyf|          indeed, Socrates; and if he attempts to indict me I am mistaken
 79 Euthyf|             not to be appealed to as authorities in religion; and he is ready
 80 Euthyf|         Meletus, who, as he says, is availing himself of the popular dislike
 81 Euthyf|           the Euthyphro, Socrates is awaiting his trial for impiety. But
 82 Euthyf|        rhapsode Ion. But he is not a bad man, and he is friendly
 83 Euthyf|             Homer and Hesiod, if not banished from the state, or whipped
 84 Euthyf|               and had dire quarrels, battles, and the like, as the poets
 85 Euthyf|             his appearance; he has a beak, and long straight hair,
 86 Euthyf|            long straight hair, and a beard which is ill grown.~EUTHYPHRO:
 87 Euthyf|              people as well. And the beauty of it is, that I would rather
 88       | becomes
 89 Euthyf|              if he goes on as he has begun, he will be a very great
 90 Euthyf|             you are reserved in your behaviour, and seldom impart your
 91 Euthyf|           serious in their religious beliefs and difficulties. The chief
 92 Euthyf|    inimitable irony, are reasons for believing that the Euthyphro is a
 93 Euthyf|          will be a very great public benefactor.~EUTHYPHRO: I hope that
 94 Euthyf|            your wisdom. But I have a benevolent habit of pouring out myself
 95 Euthyf|              is not wholly free from blame. To purge away the crime
 96 Euthyf|        murder: that the pollution of blood was the same in both cases
 97 Euthyf|            you he is simply aiming a blow at the foundation of the
 98 Euthyf|       afterwards attend to the elder branches; and if he goes on as he
 99 Euthyf|            them, as he suspects, has branded him with the reputation
100 Euthyf|            of us all; and we must be brave and go at them.~SOCRATES:
101 Euthyf|           could have seen his way to bring such an action.~EUTHYPHRO:
102 Euthyf|            doing an impious thing in bringing an action against your father?~
103 Euthyf|               the physician, and the builder have an end. To what end
104 Euthyf|         EUTHYPHRO: You understand me capitally, Socrates.~SOCRATES: Yes,
105 Euthyf|              reckoned among the four cardinal virtues of Republic IV.
106 Euthyf|              led by him, and eagerly catches at any suggestion which
107 Euthyf|              the soothsayer adds the ceremonial element, ‘attending upon
108 Euthyf|      religion, which is carried to a certain extent only; (3) the defence
109 Euthyf|        narrowness, positiveness, are characteristic of his priestly office.
110 Euthyf|            power and play of the two characters; the inimitable irony, are
111 Euthyf|            questions, and now, as he charges me with rash imaginations
112 Euthyf|            the conclusion, as in the Charmides, Lysis, Laches, Protagoras,
113 Euthyf|        father whom he admonishes and chastises. And if Meletus refuses
114 Euthyf|        therefore, Euthyphro, in thus chastising your father you may very
115 Euthyf|         asked, Euthyphro, if you had chosen. But I see plainly that
116 Euthyf|       impiety; and then I might have cleared myself of Meletus and his
117 Euthyf|           shoots his first care, and clears away us who are the destroyers
118 Euthyf|        service of the spirit and the co-operation with them in all things
119 Euthyf|           For such was the effect of cold and hunger and chains upon
120 Euthyf|      EUTHYPHRO: Of course.~SOCRATES: Come, then, and let us examine
121 Euthyf|           thrown into a ditch by the command of Euthyphro’s father, who
122 Euthyf|        reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and
123 Euthyf|    especially in courts of law: they commit all sorts of crimes, and
124 Euthyf|       Euthyphro! how little does the common herd know of the nature
125 Euthyf|        ancestor of Socrates, who has communicated his art to his descendants.~
126 Euthyf|              now.~SOCRATES: Alas! my companion, and will you leave me in
127 Euthyf|         apprehend an argument may be compared to a similar defect which
128 Euthyf|             carried away. He has the conceit and self-confidence of a
129 Euthyf|          SOCRATES: And I should also conceive that the art of the huntsman
130 Euthyf|              the holding back of the conclusion, as in the Charmides, Lysis,
131 Euthyf|              like, that all the gods condemn and abominate such an action.
132 Euthyf|            still hoping that he will condescend to instruct him. But Euthyphro
133 Euthyf|            he is ready to defend his conduct by the examples of the gods.
134 Euthyf|           meaning of gifts which are conferred by us upon the gods?~EUTHYPHRO:
135 Euthyf|         wisdom. What else can I say, confessing as I do, that I know nothing
136 Euthyf|              of Socrates.~The subtle connection with the Apology and the
137 Euthyf|             narrow and unenlightened conscience, and the higher notion of
138 Euthyf|              is not a matter of much consequence. For a man may be thought
139 Euthyf|        circumstances of the case are considered, are you able to show that
140 Euthyf|            Here then appears to be a contradiction,—Euthyphro has been giving
141 Euthyf|            Socrates remarks that the controversial nature of morals and religion
142 Euthyf|               SOCRATES: And we end a controversy about heavy and light by
143 Euthyf|            of being carried, but the converse of this. And now I think,
144 Euthyf|           because it is visible, but conversely, visible because it is seen;
145 Euthyf|     suggested by the way. Another is conveyed in the words, ‘The Athenians
146 Euthyf|              remains unshaken in his conviction that he must know the nature
147 Euthyf|            world on their trial, and convince them of ignorance in that
148 Euthyf|       between the state and the act, corresponding respectively to the adjective (
149 Euthyf|             way does he say that you corrupt the young?~SOCRATES: He
150 Euthyf|              knows how the youth are corrupted and who are their corruptors.
151 Euthyf|             is going to accuse me of corrupting his young friends. And of
152 Euthyf|          corrupted and who are their corruptors. I fancy that he must be
153 Euthyf|             toleration in most other countries, and not at Athens only.
154 Euthyf|        always arguing, especially in courts of law: they commit all
155 Euthyf|              steeds’ Socrates in the Cratylus is carried away. He has
156 Euthyf|              what sort of difference creates enmity and anger? Suppose
157 Euthyf|              Of Zeus, the author and creator of all these things, You
158 Euthyf|             they commit all sorts of crimes, and there is nothing which
159 Euthyf|             with the Apology and the Crito; the holding back of the
160 Euthyf|              the right way, with the cultivation of virtue in youth; like
161 Euthyf|              can any evidence of the date be obtained.~
162 Euthyf|           our farm in Naxos, and one day in a fit of drunken passion
163 Euthyf|            say that nothing could be dearer.~SOCRATES: Then once more
164 Euthyf|             unable satisfactorily to decide our differences, you and
165 Euthyf|           there which cannot be thus decided, and which therefore make
166 Euthyf|         every man love that which he deems noble and just and good,
167 Euthyf|             and other Dialogues; the deep insight into the religious
168 Euthyf|            is working his way into a deeper region of thought and feeling.
169 Euthyf|             be compared to a similar defect which is observable in the
170 Euthyf|         religion; and he is ready to defend his conduct by the examples
171 Euthyf|            Meletus, and he is of the deme of Pitthis. Perhaps you
172 Euthyf|     representations of mythology are denounced recalls Republic II. The
173 Euthyf|              question is necessarily dependent on the answerer, whither
174 Euthyf|            are placed because I am a descendant of his. But now, since these
175 Euthyf|          communicated his art to his descendants.~Socrates, who is desirous
176 Euthyf|            we quarrel is such as you describe.~SOCRATES: And the quarrels
177 Euthyf|             and will you leave me in despair? I was hoping that you would
178 Euthyf|            he is certainly not to be despised. He says he knows how the
179 Euthyf|           clears away us who are the destroyers of them. This is only the
180 Euthyf|              gods, is their ruin and destruction.~SOCRATES: I think that
181 Euthyf|        Dialogue: (1) the dialectical development of the idea of piety; (2)
182 Euthyf|          Cronos) because he wickedly devoured his sons, and that he too
183 Euthyf|           Through such subtleties of dialectic Socrates is working his
184 Euthyf|             little Dialogue: (1) the dialectical development of the idea
185 Euthyf|        Laches, Protagoras, and other Dialogues; the deep insight into the
186 Euthyf|         would be done even if he did die. Now this was just what
187 Euthyf|           came back the criminal had died from hunger and exposure.~
188 Euthyf|          their religious beliefs and difficulties. The chief difference between
189 Euthyf|            with one another, and had dire quarrels, battles, and the
190 Euthyf|            is also reverence.’~Now I disagree with this poet. Shall I
191 Euthyf|             is agreeable to Zeus but disagreeable to Cronos or Uranus, and
192 Euthyf|           prosecuted for impiety has disappeared. As in the Euthydemus the
193 Euthyf|            me into court; but if you disapprove, you should begin by indicting
194 Euthyf|        furnishes the occasion of the discussion.~This Euthyphro and Socrates
195 Euthyf|             persons fear poverty and disease, and the like evils, but
196 Euthyf|             plainly that you are not disposed to instruct me—clearly not:
197 Euthyf|         point which has been already disproved.~Socrates, although weary
198 Euthyf|         piety is only a part. Do you dissent?~EUTHYPHRO: No, I think
199 Euthyf|            not that which is beloved distinct from that which loves?~EUTHYPHRO:
200 Euthyf|          adequately defined by these distinctions, for that which is hateful
201 Euthyf|            Euthyphro, and that which distinguishes him, Socrates, from other
202 Euthyf|          speak in the assembly about divine things, and foretell the
203 Euthyf|              venture to say that the doer of injustice is not to be
204 Euthyf|             the religious world; the dramatic power and play of the two
205 Euthyf|              and one day in a fit of drunken passion he got into a quarrel
206 Euthyf|            the energeia precedes the dunamis); and the state of being
207 Euthyf|        willing to be led by him, and eagerly catches at any suggestion
208 Euthyf|           but perhaps they may be in earnest, and then what the end will
209 Euthyf|          production of food from the earth?~EUTHYPHRO: Exactly.~SOCRATES:
210 Euthyf|            the city of Athens, it is easier to do men harm than to do
211 Euthyf|           the same roof with you and eats at the same table, proceed
212 Euthyf|           happened. For such was the effect of cold and hunger and chains
213 Euthyf|             afterwards attend to the elder branches; and if he goes
214 Euthyf|       soothsayer adds the ceremonial element, ‘attending upon the gods.’
215 Euthyf|        Socrates vainly endeavours to elicit from him. ‘Piety is doing
216       | elsewhere
217 Euthyf|            the great Panathenaea, is embroidered with them. Are all these
218 Euthyf|       religion which Socrates vainly endeavours to elicit from him. ‘Piety
219 Euthyf|     differences of this sort make us enemies and set us at variance with
220 Euthyf|         thinking. Moreover he is the enemy of Meletus, who, as he says,
221 Euthyf|           state (as in Aristotle the energeia precedes the dunamis); and
222 Euthyf|             told him that I had been enlightened by Euthyphro, and had given
223 Euthyf|      prosecuting his father has ever entered into his mind. Like a Sophist
224 Euthyf|             far as in me lies; and I entreat you not to scorn me, but
225 Euthyf|              pious or holy, which is equivalent to saying, that it is loved
226 Euthyf|         weary of the subterfuges and evasions of Euthyphro, remains unshaken
227       | everything
228 Euthyf|              or the reverse, can any evidence of the date be obtained.~
229 Euthyf|            and disease, and the like evils, but I do not perceive that
230 Euthyf|               Come, then, and let us examine what we are saying. That
231 Euthyf|        enmity and anger? Suppose for example that you and I, my good
232 Euthyf|               which at first hearing excites surprise: he says that I
233 Euthyf|            makes you lazy. Please to exert yourself, for there is no
234 Euthyf|         invent new gods and deny the existence of old ones; this is the
235 Euthyf|              Politicus.) But when we expect him to go on and show that
236 Euthyf|           gods any better? Euthyphro explains that he means by pious acts,
237 Euthyf|        acknowledges himself that his explanations seem to walk away or go
238 Euthyf|             had died from hunger and exposure.~This is the origin of the
239 Euthyf|       another?~EUTHYPHRO: That is an expression which you may use, if you
240 Euthyf|              is carried to a certain extent only; (3) the defence of
241 Euthyf|              truth. A man must be an extraordinary man, and have made great
242 Euthyf|         impious, these two being the extreme opposites of one another.
243 Euthyf|          this Meletus; but his sharp eyes have found me out at once,
244 Euthyf|             but they argue about the fact of who the evil-doer is,
245 Euthyf|             his priestly office. His failure to apprehend an argument
246 Euthyf|           the antithesis of true and false religion, which is carried
247 Euthyf|            piety is the salvation of families and states, just as the
248 Euthyf|           tales of mythology, and he fancies that this dislike of his
249 Euthyf|              are their corruptors. I fancy that he must be a wise man,
250 Euthyf|              a field labourer on our farm in Naxos, and one day in
251 Euthyf|            commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill
252 Euthyf|          could have answered in much fewer words the chief question
253 Euthyf|          mine who worked for us as a field labourer on our farm in
254 Euthyf|              so there arise wars and fightings among them.~EUTHYPHRO: Very
255 Euthyf|              circle, like the moving figures of Daedalus, the ancestor
256 Euthyf|              your words not standing firm, but walking away? Will
257 Euthyf|              Naxos, and one day in a fit of drunken passion he got
258 Euthyf|          already mentioned as one of five in the Protagoras, but is
259 Euthyf|          mistaken if I do not find a flaw in him; the court shall
260 Euthyf|            work is the production of food from the earth?~EUTHYPHRO:
261 Euthyf|            father bound him hand and foot and threw him into a ditch,
262 Euthyf|             about divine things, and foretell the future to them, they
263 Euthyf|            what we are in process of forgetting. Greek mythology hardly
264 Euthyf|          loved of the gods? Have you forgotten?~EUTHYPHRO: I quite remember.~
265 Euthyf|          proceeds to analyze the new form of the definition. He shows
266       | former
267 Euthyf|         really believe that the gods fought with one another, and had
268 Euthyf|            is not reckoned among the four cardinal virtues of Republic
269 Euthyf|            he is incapable either of framing a general definition or
270 Euthyf|           what they think with equal frankness. For men are not easily
271 Euthyf|          homicide, and is not wholly free from blame. To purge away
272 Euthyf|             not a bad man, and he is friendly to Socrates, whose familiar
273 Euthyf|              of corrupting his young friends. And of this our mother
274 Euthyf|               SOCRATES: Why, has the fugitive wings?~EUTHYPHRO: Nay, he
275 Euthyf|             artists? The temples are full of them; and notably the
276 Euthyf|              diviner and soothsayer, furnishes the occasion of the discussion.~
277 Euthyf|             things, and foretell the future to them, they laugh at me
278 Euthyf|             you, the time might pass gaily enough in the court; but
279 Euthyf|              that the Euthyphro is a genuine Platonic writing. The spirit
280 Euthyf|             you must find some other gibe, for they certainly, as
281 Euthyf|            But although they are the givers of all good, how can we
282 Euthyf|              meaning in an art which gives to any one that which he
283 Euthyf|             are;’ and Euthyphro will gladly tell Socrates some more
284 Euthyf|            elder branches; and if he goes on as he has begun, he will
285 Euthyf|            fit of drunken passion he got into a quarrel with one
286 Euthyf|            of piety and impiety? for granting that this action may be
287 Euthyf|            in process of forgetting. Greek mythology hardly admitted
288 Euthyf|              other nations, e.g. the Greeks in the time of Socrates,
289 Euthyf|             and a beard which is ill grown.~EUTHYPHRO: No, I do not
290 Euthyf|             I hope that you will not grudge your labour. Tell me, then—
291 Euthyf|              But I have a benevolent habit of pouring out myself to
292 Euthyf|              beak, and long straight hair, and a beard which is ill
293 Euthyf|              Euthyphro, are like the handiwork of my ancestor Daedalus;
294 Euthyf|          Uranus (who suffered at the hands of their sons).~Euthyphro
295 Euthyf|               Now this was just what happened. For such was the effect
296 Euthyf|            is seeking to realize the harmony of religion and morality,
297 Euthyf|        admitted to have enmities and hatreds and differences?~EUTHYPHRO:
298 Euthyf|          object—would you not say of health?~EUTHYPHRO: I should.~SOCRATES:
299 Euthyf|           against me, which at first hearing excites surprise: he says
300 Euthyf|              impiety.~SOCRATES: Good heavens, Euthyphro! and is your
301 Euthyf|              end a controversy about heavy and light by resorting to
302 Euthyf|            and what is acceptable to Hephaestus but unacceptable to Here,
303 Euthyf|              out of the assembly, as Heracleitus more rudely proposed, at
304 Euthyf|           how little does the common herd know of the nature of right
305 Euthyf|             teaching, that Homer and Hesiod, if not banished from the
306 Euthyf|    unenlightened conscience, and the higher notion of religion which
307 Euthyf|           Apology and the Crito; the holding back of the conclusion,
308 Euthyf|               SOCRATES: And the same holds as in the previous instances;
309 Euthyf|        philosophy was teaching, that Homer and Hesiod, if not banished
310 Euthyf|              when attended to by the horseman’s art they are benefited
311 Euthyf|            view to the building of a house?~EUTHYPHRO: Yes.~SOCRATES:
312 Euthyf|           art which ministers to the house-builder with a view to the building
313 Euthyf|           denounced recalls Republic II. The virtue of piety has
314 Euthyf|             mean I may explain by an illustration of what I do not mean. The
315 Euthyf|              he charges me with rash imaginations and innovations in religion,
316 Euthyf|          them.~EUTHYPHRO: And do you imagine, Socrates, that any benefit
317 Euthyf|            Not in a suit, Euthyphro; impeachment is the word which the Athenians
318 Euthyf|              to the gods, benefit or improve them? Would you say that
319 Euthyf|           art they are benefited and improved, are they not?~EUTHYPHRO:
320 Euthyf|            Like a Sophist too, he is incapable either of framing a general
321 Euthyf|              Socrates is accused. An incident which may perhaps really
322 Euthyf|              yourself allow, show an inclination to be on the move.~EUTHYPHRO:
323 Euthyf|            impiety, one notion which includes whatever is impious?~EUTHYPHRO:
324 Euthyf|            be admitted by everybody, including the judges, to be an unimpeachable
325 Euthyf|           they are angry with me. So inconsistent are they in their way of
326 Euthyf|             from these nor any other indications of similarity or difference,
327 Euthyf|              out at once, and he has indicted me for impiety. And therefore,
328 Euthyf|      disapprove, you should begin by indicting him who is my teacher, and
329 Euthyf|          desirous of stimulating the indolent intelligence of Euthyphro,
330 Euthyf|             speculations, in which I indulged only through ignorance,
331 Euthyf|             or pleasing to Zeus (who inflicted a similar chastisement on
332 Euthyf|              the two characters; the inimitable irony, are reasons for believing
333 Euthyf|              in religion in order to injure Socrates; at the same time
334 Euthyf|            other Dialogues; the deep insight into the religious world;
335 Euthyf|             holds as in the previous instances; the state of being loved
336 Euthyf|            assist you in the task of instructing me as you promised, is a
337 Euthyf|            do tell me, for my better instruction and information, what proof
338 Euthyf|            to say, of myself whom he instructs, and of his old father whom
339 Euthyf|             stimulating the indolent intelligence of Euthyphro, raises the
340 Euthyf|              that my meaning will be intelligible; and my meaning is, that
341 Euthyf|             altogether three aims or interests in this little Dialogue: (
342 Euthyf|              the gods.’ When further interrogated by Socrates as to the nature
343 Euthyf|                                      INTRODUCTION~In the Meno, Anytus had
344 Euthyf|            maker of gods, and that I invent new gods and deny the existence
345 Euthyf|         whereas he only made his own inventions to move, I move those of
346 Euthyf|        Proteus in the Euthydemus and Io. The kingly science has
347 Euthyf|           observable in the rhapsode Ion. But he is not a bad man,
348       | itself
349 Euthyf|         cardinal virtues of Republic IV. The figure of Daedalus
350 Euthyf|            say is true. But they are jealous of us all; and we must be
351 Euthyf|            perhaps, as you say, from jealousy, they are angry.~EUTHYPHRO:
352 Euthyf|             main.~SOCRATES: But they join issue about the particulars—
353 Euthyf|        mother the state is to be the judge. Of all our political men
354 Euthyf|              able to detain them and keep them fixed. But enough of
355 Euthyf|             They say that he did not kill him, and that if he did,
356 Euthyf|           the Euthydemus and Io. The kingly science has already appeared
357 Euthyf|              which you said that you knew so well, and of murder,
358 Euthyf|          same in either case, if you knowingly associate with the murderer
359 Euthyf|             you will not grudge your labour. Tell me, then—Is not that
360 Euthyf|             worked for us as a field labourer on our farm in Naxos, and
361       | latter
362 Euthyf|             at them.~SOCRATES: Their laughter, friend Euthyphro, is not
363 Euthyf|              especially in courts of law: they commit all sorts of
364 Euthyf|           and that now I am about to lead a better life.~THE END~
365 Euthyf|           speak of being carried, of leading and being led, seeing and
366 Euthyf|             the answerer, whither he leads I must follow; and can only
367       | least
368 Euthyf|              companion, and will you leave me in despair? I was hoping
369 Euthyf|              EUTHYPHRO: Why have you left the Lyceum, Socrates? and
370 Euthyf|           Compare Theaet.) Both have legal business in hand. Socrates
371 Euthyf|          some other time when I have leisure. But just at present I would
372       | less
373 Euthyf|             them, you are not afraid lest you too may be doing an
374 Euthyf|          between the religion of the letter, or of the narrow and unenlightened
375 Euthyf|              hated by one god may be liked by another? Waiving this
376 Euthyf|             But I have no particular liking for anything but the truth.
377 Euthyf|             and would even pay for a listener, and I am afraid that the
378 Euthyf|             your wisdom as long as I live.~EUTHYPHRO: It will be a
379 Euthyf|            then even if the murderer lives under the same roof with
380 Euthyf|              say, you are of all men living the one who is best instructed
381 Euthyf|              standard to which I may look, and by which I may measure
382 Euthyf|             distinct from that which loves?~EUTHYPHRO: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
383 Euthyf|     EUTHYPHRO: Why have you left the Lyceum, Socrates? and what are
384 Euthyf|              resorting to a weighing machine?~EUTHYPHRO: To be sure.~
385 Euthyf|         EUTHYPHRO: You will think me mad when I tell you.~SOCRATES:
386 Euthyf|           laugh at me and think me a madman. Yet every word that I say
387 Euthyf|         suppose that we differ about magnitudes, do we not quickly end the
388 Euthyf|            is true, Socrates, in the main.~SOCRATES: But they join
389 Euthyf|             says that I am a poet or maker of gods, and that I invent
390 Euthyf|            amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one
391 Euthyf|            the end.~The Euthyphro is manifestly designed to contrast the
392 Euthyf|              is put in chains by the master of the dead man, and dies
393 Euthyf|            as servants show to their masters.~SOCRATES: I understand—
394 Euthyf|           which would be more than a match for him. He is quite sincere
395       | Meanwhile
396 Euthyf|       quickly end the differences by measuring?~EUTHYPHRO: Very true.~SOCRATES:
397 Euthyf|        EUTHYPHRO: Exactly.~SOCRATES: Medicine is also a sort of ministration
398 Euthyf|          Socrates are represented as meeting in the porch of the King
399 Euthyf|            of piety has been already mentioned as one of five in the Protagoras,
400 Euthyf|              or simply to accept the mere statement on our own authority
401 Euthyf|              was a poor dependant of mine who worked for us as a field
402 Euthyf|          what they want; in short, a mode of doing business between
403 Euthyf|              not occur to you at the moment, and therefore I will suggest
404 Euthyf|             in placing religion on a moral foundation. He is seeking
405 Euthyf|              harmony of religion and morality, which the great poets Aeschylus,
406 Euthyf|              controversial nature of morals and religion arises out
407       | Moreover
408 Euthyf|       Daedalus who sets arguments in motion; not I, certainly, but you
409 Euthyf|          round in a circle, like the moving figures of Daedalus, the
410 Euthyf|           and I hardly know him: his name is Meletus, and he is of
411 Euthyf|           for a similar reason, in a nameless manner. And yet when I proceed
412 Euthyf|            author of a philosophy of names, by whose ‘prancing steeds’
413 Euthyf|             of the letter, or of the narrow and unenlightened conscience,
414 Euthyf|     wrong-headedness, one-sidedness, narrowness, positiveness, are characteristic
415 Euthyf|             their own; or that other nations, e.g. the Greeks in the
416 Euthyf|             He thinks that you are a neologian, and he is going to have
417       | next
418 Euthyf|           consider, Socrates, what a notable proof I will give you of
419 Euthyf|        temples are full of them; and notably the robe of Athene, which
420 Euthyf|          view the attainment of some object—would you not say of health?~
421 Euthyf|              that they reverence the objects of their fear.~EUTHYPHRO:
422 Euthyf|              similar defect which is observable in the rhapsode Ion. But
423 Euthyf|              evidence of the date be obtained.~
424 Euthyf|            soothsayer, furnishes the occasion of the discussion.~This
425 Euthyf|              the familiar sign which occasionally, as you say, comes to you.
426 Euthyf|              of religion which first occurs to him, and to many others
427       | off
428 Euthyf|              of murder, and of other offences against the gods. What are
429 Euthyf|       characteristic of his priestly office. His failure to apprehend
430 Euthyf|              SOCRATES: Tell me then, oh tell me—what is that fair
431 Euthyf|      argument. His wrong-headedness, one-sidedness, narrowness, positiveness,
432 Euthyf|            deny the existence of old ones; this is the ground of his
433 Euthyf|             was anticipating another opportunity of talking with him. In
434 Euthyf|           innovations in religion in order to injure Socrates; at the
435 Euthyf|            and exposure.~This is the origin of the charge of murder
436 Euthyf|           own father. The latter has originated in the following manner:—
437 Euthyf|             is loved, and the other (osion) is loved because it is
438 Euthyf|        conceptions of them have been overthrown, Socrates does not offer
439 Euthyf|           the Acropolis at the great Panathenaea, is embroidered with them.
440 Euthyf|              In the Meno, Anytus had parted from Socrates with the significant
441 Euthyf|              SOCRATES: But I have no particular liking for anything but
442 Euthyf|                That in any city, and particularly in the city of Athens, it
443 Euthyf|            they join issue about the particulars—gods and men alike; and,
444 Euthyf|         laugh at you, the time might pass gaily enough in the court;
445 Euthyf|            everybody, and would even pay for a listener, and I am
446 Euthyf|            makes them walk away, not perceiving that there is another and
447 Euthyf|       prosecution, he must have been perfectly informed of the nature of
448 Euthyf|               For men are not easily persuaded that any other religion
449 Euthyf|            the verb (philoumenon and phileitai). The act is prior to the
450 Euthyf|       respectively to the adjective (philon) and the participle (philoumenon),
451 Euthyf| ministrations of the husbandman, the physician, and the builder have an
452 Euthyf|            Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Pindar had unconsciously anticipated,
453 Euthyf|             and he is of the deme of Pitthis. Perhaps you may remember
454 Euthyf|          remain fixed where they are placed because I am a descendant
455 Euthyf|            Socrates has proceeded in placing religion on a moral foundation.
456 Euthyf|            you had chosen. But I see plainly that you are not disposed
457 Euthyf|       another); and Euthyphro too is plaintiff in an action for murder,
458 Euthyf|             before the trial begins, Plato would like to put the world
459 Euthyf|           the Euthyphro is a genuine Platonic writing. The spirit in which
460 Euthyf|               the dramatic power and play of the two characters; the
461 Euthyf|            was just now saying, what pleases them?~SOCRATES: Piety, then,
462 Euthyf|             be the judge. Of all our political men he is the only one who
463 Euthyf|             compare Symp.; Republic; Politicus.) But when we expect him
464 Euthyf|           one-sidedness, narrowness, positiveness, are characteristic of his
465 Euthyf|           have a benevolent habit of pouring out myself to everybody,
466 Euthyf|          sure that many persons fear poverty and disease, and the like
467 Euthyf|        religious world; the dramatic power and play of the two characters;
468 Euthyf|           Socrates.~SOCRATES: By the powers, Euthyphro! how little does
469 Euthyf|       philosophy of names, by whose ‘prancing steeds’ Socrates in the
470 Euthyf|              giving to the gods, and prayer is asking of the gods?~EUTHYPHRO:
471 Euthyf|             are a sort of science of praying and sacrificing?~EUTHYPHRO:
472 Euthyf|          rather hear from you a more precise answer, which you have not
473 Euthyf|            fixed rule; and these are precisely the sort of differences
474 Euthyf|             you soothsayers only can predict.~EUTHYPHRO: I dare say that
475 Euthyf|            gods? Do you mean that we prefer requests and give gifts
476 Euthyf|             the Laches and Lysis, he prepares the way for an answer to
477 Euthyf|            have leisure. But just at present I would rather hear from
478 Euthyf|            are characteristic of his priestly office. His failure to apprehend
479 Euthyf|          gods, which is the chief or principal one?~EUTHYPHRO: I have told
480 Euthyf|              given to others:—of the principle, I mean, that the impious,
481 Euthyf|           and phileitai). The act is prior to the state (as in Aristotle
482 Euthyf|                Thus far Socrates has proceeded in placing religion on a
483 Euthyf|            clear yourself and him by proceeding against him. The real question
484 Euthyf|           Euthyphro agrees.~Socrates proceeds to analyze the new form
485 Euthyf|              learning what we are in process of forgetting. Greek mythology
486 Euthyf|            but his chief work is the production of food from the earth?~
487 Euthyf|             of instructing me as you promised, is a matter for you to
488 Euthyf|              Heracleitus more rudely proposed, at any rate were not to
489 Euthyf|              last, however, Socrates proposes to amend the definition,
490 Euthyf|           and if I were the sayer or propounder of them, you might say that
491 Euthyf|            no difference; and not to prosecute them is impiety. And please
492 Euthyf|            that a son is impious who prosecutes a father. Which shows, Socrates,
493 Euthyf|             believe that you are the prosecutor of another.~SOCRATES: Certainly
494 Euthyf|              he will be a very great public benefactor.~EUTHYPHRO: I
495 Euthyf|           wholly free from blame. To purge away the crime appears to
496 Euthyf|        enquire what part? If you had pursued the enquiry in the previous
497 Euthyf|              shall never be weary of pursuing as far as in me lies; and
498 Euthyf|           SOCRATES: Nor is every one qualified to attend to dogs, but only
499 Euthyf|              to say that I am not so quick of apprehension as the judges:
500 Euthyf|          about magnitudes, do we not quickly end the differences by measuring?~