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Euthyphro. Not only these things, Socrates; but, as I said just now, I will, if you like, tell you many other things about the gods, which I am sure will amaze you when you hear them.
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Socrates. I dare say. But you can tell me those things at your leisure some other time. At present try to tell more clearly what I asked you just now. For, my friend, you did not give me sufficient information before, when I asked what holiness was, but you told me that this was holy which you are now doing, prosecuting your father for murder.
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Euthyphro. Well, what I said was true, Socrates.
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Socrates. Perhaps. But, Euthyphro, you say that many other things are holy, do you not?
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Euthyphro. Why, so they are.
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Socrates. Now call to mind that this is not what I asked you, to tell me one or two of the many holy acts, but to tell the essential aspect, by which all holy acts are holy; for you said that all unholy acts were unholy and all holy ones holy by one aspect. Or don’t you remember?
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Euthyphro. I remember.
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Socrates. Tell me then what this aspect is, that I may keep my eye fixed upon it and employ it as a model and, if anything you or anyone else does agrees with it, may say that the act is holy, and if not, that it is unholy.
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Euthyphro. If you wish me to explain in that way, I will do so.
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Socrates. I do wish it.
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Euthyphro. Well then, what is dear to the gods is holy, and what is not dear to them is unholy.
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Socrates. Excellent, Euthyphro, now you have answered as I asked you to answer. However, whether it is true, I am not yet sure; but you will, of course, show that what you say is true.
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Euthyphro. Certainly.
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Socrates. Come then, let us examine our words. The thing and the person that are dear to the gods are holy, and the thing and the person that are hateful to the gods are unholy; and the two are not the same, but the holy and the unholy are the exact opposites of each other. Is not this what we have said?
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Euthyphro. Yes, just this.
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Socrates. And it seems to be correct?
