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Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus: English Text is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume contains W. R. M. Lamb’s translation of Plato’s Euthyphro, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, and his account of Socrates’ trial for treason: Apology.

which you are now doing, prosecuting your father for murder. EUTHYPHRO. Well, what I said was true, Socrates. SOCRATES. Perhaps. But, Euthyphro, you say that many other things are holy, do you not? EUTHYPHRO. Why, so they are. 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 [E] that all unholy acts were unholy and all holy ones holy by one aspect. Or don’t you
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