Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀπολογέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπολογέομαι

Structure: ἀπολογέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: a)po/, lo/gos

Sense

  1. to speak in defence, defend oneself, about, in answer to.., to speak, behalf, the defendant
  2. to defend oneself against, explain, excuse
  3. to allege in one's defence
  4. to speak against

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἔπειτα πῶσ οὐκ αὐτὸσ ἀπολογεῖ παρών; (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics 1:26)
  • ἀλλὰ σὺ τί διδάσκεισ με πάντασ τοὺσ τρόπουσ οἷσ δεῖ με τιμωρήσασθαι τοὺσ ἐχθρούσ, ἀλλ’ οὐ καθ’ ὃν εἰσελήλυθα, τοῦτον ἀπολογεῖ; (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 80:1)
  • διὸ εὖ Φιλοκράτησ, εἰπόντοσ τινόσ, ὀργιζομένου τοῦ δήμου, "τί οὐκ ἀπολογεῖ; (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 3 13:2)

Synonyms

  1. to speak in defence

  2. to defend oneself against

  3. to allege in one's defence

  4. to speak against

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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