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A booklet for Plato’s Euthyphro and Apology

14th October 2026

The fourteenth Phil@Viv philosophy meeting, on October 14, read Plato’s Euthyphro and Apology in G. M. A. Grube’s translation: Socrates on the way to court, cross-examining a man who is sure he knows what piety is, and then Socrates on trial for his life. The host shared the reading as a PDF on Google Drive, 37 letter-size book pages. I turned it into a pocket booklet, the first of what became a run of these.

The booklet

It is printed on precut 6.125 x 9.25 inch stock, the size of a Supreme Court brief. The cover has a double-rule frame, Greek-key bands at the top and bottom, PLATO with ΠΛΑΤΩΝ above it, the two titles with their Greek names, and the line from Apology 38a in Greek and in Grube’s English: “The unexamined life is not worth living for men.”

The interior is the host’s pages, each cropped to its text block and enlarged. Left and right pages of a book sit at different offsets on the page, so odd and even pages each get their own crop box. The first print had margins of about a third of an inch. I widened them by a quarter inch for the reprints, to 0.65 inch at the sides and 0.75 inch at the top and bottom, which leaves room to write. The Stephanus numbers in the margin stay in, so “38a” can be found on the page.

The booklet reproduces the whole translation, so I am not posting the print files.

A glossary

Download the glossary (PDF). It is written for the booklet and covers the people, the places and institutions of an Athenian trial, the gods and myths Euthyphro cites, and the ideas and arguments, each with Stephanus references. A short guide at the top maps the main movements of each dialogue to the entries that matter there.

Paper and printing

The cover went one-sided on an Epson EcoTank ET-2988 on Cougar White Card Stock, 65 lb / 176 gsm, Smooth, and the interior duplex on 60 lb text paper, such as Cougar White Digital Super Smooth, 60 lb / 89 gsm, both from CutCardStock with custom cutting to 6⅛ × 9¼. The cover’s blank back faces page 1, so the booklet opens straight onto the Euthyphro.

Links

1. Phil@Viv 14 on Partiful, the event and the reading assignment
2. The reading as shared by the host (Google Drive)
3. Glossary PDF
4. Booklet cover, page 3 and page 33
5. Cougar 65 lb cover stock and Cougar Super Smooth 60 lb text paper at CutCardStock
6. The sequel: Plato’s Crito and Phaedo