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Logic IV 33.
he was really born after the Olympic games of 428 BC. The Euthyphro was the outpouring of the young mans heart when his master was accused of impiety. It is the bitterest and shapest of satives on the notion that what the gods love is ipso facto good.
Passing over the Apology and Crito which are historical the Heippias Minor is another very youthful production intended to show that intentional evil is not quite so bad as unintentional evil. Diogenes Laetius reports the Hermodorus sayd that after the death of Socrates, Plato and his fellow disciples removed to Megara. This Hermudorus must be that disciple of Plato who wrote his master's life for had it been my other and unknown Hermadorus Diogenes would have been bound to warn us of this. Such then is the testimony. It is less open to objection than most of the testimony on which the history of ancient philosophy.