An idea from The Trial and Death of Socrates

His next try: the holy is what all the gods love. So Socrates asked “whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods”. Every definition after that circled back, and the man left in a hurry.

From The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato

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