Plato, Euthyphro, section 6d

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[6d] 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.

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

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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