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What novel circumstance has happened, Socrates, that you, leaving the discussions in the Lyceum, are now waiting about the porch of the king ? For you have not an action with the king, as I have.

The Athenians, Euthyphro, do not call it an action, but an accusation.

What do you say ? Some one, as it seems, has accused you. For I should not think that you would accuse another.

I should not, indeed.

Has, then, another accused you ?

Certainly.

Who is he ?

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.

I do not recollect him, Socrates. But what is his accusation of you ?

What is it ? Not an ignoble one, as it appears to me. For it is no