EUTHYPHRO [on ON HOLINESS, A TENTATIVE DIALOGUE CHARACTERS EOTHYPHRO, SOcRATES EUTHYPHRo. What strange thing has tes,that you have left your accustom e Lyceum and are now haunting where the king archon sits? For it cann 8OCRATEs. Our Athenians, Euthyphro, do not call it an action but an indictment. EUTHVPHRO. What? Somebody has, it brought an indictment against you for I dont ccuse you of having brought one against anyone SOCRATEs, Certainly not. EUTHYPHRo. But someone else against you OCRATES LUTHYPIIRo. Who is he SOCRATEs. I don t know the man very Euthyphro, for he seems to be a young an rson. His name, however, is Meletus And he is of the deme of Pitthus, if you ny Pitthian Meletus, with long hair and only a little beard, but with a hooked nose. Digitized by Microsoft (R
EUTHYPHRO [OR ON HOLINESS, A TENTATIVE DIALOGUE] CHARACTERS EUTHYPHRO, SOCRATES EUTHYPHRO. What strange thing has happened, Socrates, that you have left your accustomed haunts in the Lyceum and are now haunting the portico where the king archon sits ? For it cannot be that you have an action before the king, as I have. SOCRATES. Our Athenians, Euthyphro, do not call it an action, but an indictment. EUTHYPHRO. What? Somebody has, it seems, brought an indictment against you ; for I don't accuse you of having brought one against anyone else.SOCRATES. Certainly not. EUTHYPHRO. But someone else against you ? SOCRATES. Quite so. EUTHYPHRO. Who is he ? SOCRATES. I don't know the man very well myself, Euthyphro, for he seems to be a young and unknown person. His name, however, is Meletus, I believe. And he is of the deme of Pitthus, if you remember any Pitthian Meletus, with long hair and only a little beard, but with a hooked nose
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EUTHYPHRO EUTHYPHRO. I don't remember him, Socrates. But what sort of an indictment has he brought against you ? SOCRATES. What sort? No mean one, it seems to me ; for the fact that, young as lie is, he has apprehended so important a matter reflects no small credit upon him. For he says he knows how the youth are corrupted and who those are who corrupt them. He must be a wise man ; who, seeing my lack of wisdom and that I am corrupting his fellows, comes to the State, as a boy runs to his mother, to accuse me. And he seems to me to be the only one of the public men who begins in the right way ; for the right way is to take care of the young men first, to make them as good as possible, just as a good husbandman will naturally take care of the young plants first and afterwards of the rest. And so Meletus, perhaps, is first clearing away us who corrupt the young plants, as he says ; then after this, when he has turned his attention to the older men, he will bring countless most precious blessings upon the State, at least, that is the natural out- come of the beginning he has made. EUTHYPHRO. I hope it may be so, Socrates ; but I fear the opposite may result. For it seems to me that he begins by injuring the State at its very heart, when he undertakes to harm you. Now tell me, what does he say you do that corrupts the young ? SOCRATES. Absurd things, my friend, at first hearing. For he says I am a maker of gods ; and because I make new gods and do not believe in the old ones, he indicted me for the sake of these old ones, as he says. EUTHYPHRO. I understand, Socrates ; it is because
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EUTHYPHRO you say the divine monitor keeps coming So he ought the indictment against yo making innovations in religion, and he is going ch ourt to slander you, knot wing that slanders on sue subjects are readily accepted by the people. Why hey even laugh at me and say I am crazy when I say anything in the assembly about divine and foretell the future to them. And yet there is not one of the things I have foretold that is not true: but they are jeal men as you nd I are. However, we must not be disturbed, but lust come to close quarters with them. SOCRATES. My dear Euthyphro, their ridicule raps of no consequence. For the Athenians, I fancy, are not much concerned, if they think a mar is clever, provided he does not impart his clever notions to others; but when they think he makes others to be like himself, they are angry with him either through jealousy, as you say, or for some other reason EUTHYPHRO. I don't much desire to test their ntiments toward me in this matter SOCRATES. No, for perhaps they think that you are reserved and willing to impart your wisdom But I fear that because of my love of men they think that I not only pour myself out copiously to anyone and everyone without payment, but that I would even pay something myself, if anyone would listen to me. Now if, as I was saying just now, they at you, it would not be at all unpleasant to pass the time the court with jests and laughter; but if they are in earnest, then only soothsayers like you can tell how this will end Digitized by Microsoft(e
EUTHYPHRO you say the divine monitor keeps coming to you. So he has brought the indictment against you for making innovations in religion, and he is going into court to slander you, knowing that slanders on such subjects are readily accepted by the people. Why, they even laugh at me and say I am crazy when I say anything in the assembly about divine things and foretell the future to them. And yet there is not one of the things I have foretold that is not true ; but they are jealous of all such men as you and I are. However, we must not be disturbed, but must come to close quarters with them. SOCRATES. My dear Euthyphro, their ridicule is perhaps of no consequence. For the Athenians, I fancy, are not much concerned, if they think a man is clever, provided he does not impart his clever notions to others ; but when they think he makes others to be like himself, they are angry with him, either through jealousy, as you say, or for some other reason. EUTHYPHRO. I don't much desire to test their sentiments toward me in this matter. SOCRATES. No, for perhaps they think that you are reserved and unwilling to impart your wisdom. But I fear that because of my love of men they think that I not only pour myself out copiously to anyone and everyone without payment, but that I would even p;iy something myself, if anyone would listen to me. Now if, as I was saying just now, they were to laugh at me, as you say they do at you, it would not be at all unpleasant to pass the time in the court with jests and laughter ; but if they are in earnest, then only soothsayers like you can tell how this will end. II