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THE CANADIAN JOURNAL. 



NEW SERIES. 



No. XLII.— NOVEMBER, 1862. 



NOTES ON PASSAGES IN THE PLATONIC DIALOGUES. 



BY THE REV. GEOEGE PAXTON YOUNG, M.A,, 



PEOFESSOE OF LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS IN KNOX COLLEGE, TORONTO. 



Note I. 



AWa ^ev h-q hiori cftiXeLrai viro Oewv, (}>LXovfJL€vov iari Kai 6eo<f>iXc<; [to 

 ^eo^iXcs]. — {Euthryphro. § 12. Bekker). 



The last two words, which I have enclosed within brackets, have 

 been added on pure conjecture — "de sola Bastii conjectura," as 

 Stallbaum writes. They have been received by Bekker into his text ; 

 and Stallbaum, in a long note, endeavours to prove, that, without 

 the addition, the passage has no tolerable meaning. I venture to 

 think, however, that the emendators of the text are here in the 

 wrong; and that the proposed addition, instead of being necessary, 

 mars the sense of the passage. 



To shew this, it will be sufBcient to indicate the line of thought 

 in that part of the dialogue where the sentence under consideration 

 occurs. Euthyphro has given a definition of holiness as "that which 

 is loved by the gods ;" in other words, the doctrine has been laid 

 down, that, to be God-loved (^eo^tXes), and to be holy (oo-iov). are 

 interchangeable expressions. Against this view Socrates directs a 

 battery of argument, as follows : 



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