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that all unholy acts were unholy and all holy ones holy by one aspect. Or don't you remember?Euthyphro
I remember.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.Euthyphro
If you wish me to explain in that way, I will do so.Socrates
I do wish it.Euthyphro
Well then, what is dear to the gods is holy,
I remember.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.Euthyphro
If you wish me to explain in that way, I will do so.Socrates
I do wish it.Euthyphro
Well then, what is dear to the gods is holy,