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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

  • εἴρηκα, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, ὑμεῖσ δέ, ἢν εἰσ τὸν ἐμὸν τρόπον τῶν λόγων ἀπολογεῖσθαι θέλῃ, τοῦτο μὲν μὴ ἐπιτρέπετε, ‐ ἄγνωμον γὰρ ἐπ’ ἐμὲ τὴν ἐμὴν μάχαιραν ἀκονᾶν ‐ κατὰ δὲ τὸν αὑτοῦ ἐρώμενον τὸν Διάλογον οὕτωσ ἀπολογείσθω, ἢν δύνηται. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 29:5)
  • "ἀλλὰ νῦν μὲν ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ πλεέτω, τοῦ δὲ πολέμου διαπραχθέντοσ ἐπὶ τοῖσ αὐτοῖσ νόμοισ ἀπολογείσθω παρών. (Plutarch, , chapter 19 4:2)
  • οὕτω δὴ τούτων ὑποκειμένων, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, Πρόδικέ τε καὶ Ἱππία, ἀπολογείσθω ἡμῖν Πρωταγόρασ ὅδε ἃ τὸ πρῶτον ἀπεκρίνατο πῶσ ὀρθῶσ ἔχει ‐ μὴ ἃ τὸ πρῶτον παντάπασι· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 406:1)
  • εἴ τισ ὡσ παρθένον μνηστευσάμενοσ ἔπειτα μὴ τοιαύτην εὑρ́οι, δίκην λαχὼν αὐτὸσ μὲν κατηγορείτω χρώμενοσ εἰσ ἀπόδειξιν οἷσ ἂν ἔχῃ τεκμηρίοισ, ἀπολογείσθω δὲ ὁ τῆσ κόρησ πατὴρ ἢ ἀδελφὸσ ἢ ὃσ ἂν μετὰ τούτουσ ἐγγυτέρω δοκῇ τοῦ γένουσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 316:1)

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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