. The International library of famous literature : selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes and with introductions. at thearchons porch, Socrates ? Why have you left your haunts inthe Lyceum ? You surely cannot have an action before him, asI have. Socrates — Nay, the Athenians, Euthyphron, call it a prose-cution, not an action. Euthyphron— What? Do you mean that some one is prose-cuting you? I cannot believe that you are prosecuting anyone yourself. Socrates — Certainly I am not. Euthyphron — Then is some one prosecuting
. The International library of famous literature : selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes and with introductions. at thearchons porch, Socrates ? Why have you left your haunts inthe Lyceum ? You surely cannot have an action before him, asI have. Socrates — Nay, the Athenians, Euthyphron, call it a prose-cution, not an action. Euthyphron— What? Do you mean that some one is prose-cuting you? I cannot believe that you are prosecuting anyone yourself. Socrates — Certainly I am not. Euthyphron — Then is some one prosecuting you ? Socrates — Yes. Euthyphron — Who is he ? Socrates — I scarcely know him myself, Euthyphron ; Ithink he must be some unknown young man. His name, how-ever, is Meletus, and his deme Pitthis, if you can call to mindany Meletus of that deme, —a hook-nosed man with long hair,and a rather scanty beard. Euthyphron — I dont know him, Socrates. But, tell me,what is he prosecuting you for ? Socrates — What for ? Not on trivial grounds, I think. Itis no small thing for so young a man to have formed an opinionon such an important matter. For he, he says, knows how the. THE TRIAL OF SOCRATES. young are corrupted, and who are their corrupters. He mustbe a wise man. who. observing my ignorance, is going to 100HMme to the city, as his mother, of corrupting his friends. I thinkthat he is the only man who begins at the right point in hispolitical reforms : I mean whose first can; is to make the youngmen as perfect as possible, just as a good farmer will take careof his young plants first, ami, after he has done that, of theothers. And so Meletus, 1 suppose, is first clearing us off, who,as he says, corrupt the young men as they grow up ; and then,when he has done that, of course he will turn his attention tothe older men, and so become a very great public , that is only what you would expect, when he goes towork in this way. Euthyphron — I hope it ma
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