EUTHYPHRO: I would certainly say that the pious is what all the gods [e] love, and the opposite, what all the gods hate, is the impious. SOCRATES: Then let us again examine whether that is a sound statement, or do we let it pass, and if one of us, or someone else, merely {12} says that something is so, do we accept that it is so? Or should we examine what the speaker means? EUTHYPHRO: We must examine it, but I certainly think that this is now a fine statement.
