Plato, Euthyphro, section 13d

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[13d] “attention to the gods” just because I did not think you meant anything like that.

Euthyphro
You are right, Socrates; that is not what I mean.

Socrates
Well, what kind of attention to the gods is holiness?

Euthyphro
The kind, Socrates, that servants pay to their masters.

Socrates
I understand. It is, you mean, a kind of service to the gods?

Euthyphro
Exactly.

Socrates
Now can you tell me what result the art that serves the physician serves to produce? Is it not health?

Euthyphro
Yes.

Socrates
Well then; what is it which the art

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 1 translated by Harold North Fowler; Introduction by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1966.

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