478 NOTES ON PASSAGES IN THE 



A. 1. An object of love is not loved, because it is a loved 



thing {6vx oTi i^iXovfievov icm, ^tXctrai). 



2. But it is a loved thing, because it is loved (on ^tXeirat, 



(f>L\0VfX€V0v). 



B. 1. With reference to holiness in particular, it is loved by 



the Q-ods because it is holy (Sion apa oo-lov eo-rt, (fnXeurai). 



2. Its being loved by the Grods is not what makes it holy 



{6v)(^ OTL ^iXciTttt, 8ia TovTo (xTLov IfTTLv). — Thc circumstance 



of its being loved by the Gods makes it merely (A. 2) a 



God-loved thing ('AAAa /acv 817 Stort ^lAeirai 'vtto Oeaxv, 



(jaXovixevov ea-ri Kai ^eo^iXes). — This is the sentence which 



is supposed to need emendation. But, taking it, as I have done, 



without Bast's supplement, its effect is to throw a fuller light upon 



the negative statement, that the circumstance of holiness being loved 



by the Gods is not what makes it holy, by shewing positively that 



this circumstance makes holiness God-loved (^eo^iXes), and nothing 



more. 



C Hence it follows that the holy and the God-loved are not 

 (as Euthryphro's definition implied) the same. For, on 

 supposition of their being the same {it ye rain-ov tjv), a 

 twofold contradiction arises. 



First, it has been granted (B. 1) that the holy is 

 loved because it is holy. Bat, by hypothesis, the holy 

 and the God-loved are the same. Substitute, therefore, 

 God-loved for holy in the proposition ( B. 1) just quoted ; 

 and the proposition will become — the Gi)d-loved is loved 

 because it is God-loved : which is at variance with A. 1. 

 ('El ye ravTOv tjv, 'to <^tA,e ^Evdvcjipov, to ^eo(/)tXes Kai to ha-iov, 

 it fiev Sia TO oaiov itvai ec^iXeiro to oaiov, Kai Sia to o€0<f>tX€^ 

 civat i(j>iXei.TO dv to 6eo(f>i\e<;). 



Again, it has been granted (A. 2) that the God- 

 loved is God-loved because it is loved by the Gods. 

 This proposition, by the substitution of holy for God- 

 loved, according to the hypothesis of the identity of to 

 oo-iov with TO ^eo^iXes, becomes — the holy is holy because 

 it is loved by the Gods : which is at variance with B. 2. 

 ('El Se 8ta to cfaXeta-Oai viro Oeiov to ^eo<^iXes ^eo^iXcs rjVf 

 Kttt TO oo-iov dv 8ia TO <^tXeto-^ai oo-lov ^v). 



