THE EUTHYPHRO.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE,
EUTHYPHRO, SOCRATES.
EUTHYPHRO.
What novel circumstance has happened, Socrates, that you, leaving the discussions in the Lyceum, are now waiting about the porch[1] of the king ? For you have not an action with the king, as I have.
Soc. The Athenians, Euthyphro, do not call it an action, but an accusation.
Euth. What do you say ? Some one, as it seems, has accused you. For I should not think that you would accuse another.
Soc. I should not, indeed.
Euth. Has, then, another accused you ?
Soc. Certainly.
Euth. Who is he ?
Soc. I do not, Euthyphro, perfectly know the man: for he appears to me to be young, and of no note. But they call him, I think, Melitus ; and he is of the town Pittheus : if you have in your recollection one Melitus, a Pitthean, who has long hair, a thin beard, and an aquiline nose.
Euth. I do not recollect him, Socrates. But what is his accusation of you ?
Soc. What is it ? Not an ignoble one, as it appears to me. For it is no
- ↑ The king's porch was a place on the right side of the Ceramicus, where the second of the nine archons, who was called the king, presided for the space of a year. See Pausanias in Attic, lib. i. p. 5, and Meursius in Attic. Led. lib. vi. c, 27.
