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Socrates

Socrates. Would not the right way of asking be to ask of them what we need from them?

Euthyphro

Euthyphro. What else?

Socrates

Socrates. And the right way of giving, to present them with what they need from us? For it would not be scientific giving to give anyone what he does not need.

Euthyphro

Euthyphro. You are right, Socrates.

Socrates

Socrates. Then holiness would be an art of barter between gods and men? 20

Euthyphro

Euthyphro. Yes, of barter, if you like to call it so.

Socrates

Socrates. I don’t like to call it so, if it is not true. But tell me, what advantage accrues to the gods from the gifts they get from us? For everybody knows what they give, since we have nothing good which they do not give. But what advantage do they derive from what they get from us? Or have we so much the better of them in our bartering that we get all good things from them and they nothing from us?

Euthyphro

Euthyphro. Why you don’t suppose, Socrates, that the gods gain any advantage from what they get from us, do you?

Socrates

Socrates. Well then, what would those gifts of ours to the gods be?

Euthyphro

Euthyphro. What else than honor and praise, and, as I said before, gratitude?

Socrates

Socrates. Then, Euthyphro, holiness is grateful to the gods, but not advantageous or precious to the gods? 5

Euthyphro

Euthyphro. I think it is precious, above all things.

Socrates

Socrates. Then again, it seems, holiness is that which is precious to the gods.