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

  • ἀθωράκιστον φερομένων δὲ παντοδαπῶν ἑκατέρωθεν βελῶν, παλτὸν ἐμπεσεῖν ὁλοσίδηρον αὐτῷ, καὶ τῇ μὲν ἀκμῇ μὴ θιγεῖν, ἀλλὰ πλάγιον παρὰ τήν ἀριστερὰν πλευρὰν παραδραμεῖν, ῥύμῃ δὲ τῆσ παρόδου τόν τε χιτῶνα διακόψαι καὶ τήν σάρκα φοινίξαι τυφλῷ μώλωπι, πολὺν χρόνον διαφυλάξαντι τόν τύπον, ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ὁ Ποσειδώνιοσ ὑπὲρ τοῦ Περσέωσ ἀπολογεῖται. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 19 5:1)
  • ἐὰν δὲ φεύγων φυγὴν ὧν αἴδεσίσ ἐστιν, αἰτίαν ἔχῃ ἀποκτεῖναι ἢ τρῶσαί τινα, τούτῳ δ’ ἐν Φρεάτου δικάζουσιν, ὁ δ’ ἀπολογεῖται προσορμισάμενοσ ἐν πλοίῳ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 57 3:5)
  • τότε δ’ εἰσ τὸ ἱερὸν εἰσελθὼν ἀπολογεῖται. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 57 4:3)
  • ταύτην μὲν οὖν τὴν φιλοτιμίαν αὐτοῦ παραμυθούμενοσ Ἀριστοτέλησ ἀπολογεῖται περὶ τῶν λόγων ἐκείνων, ὡσ καὶ ἐκδεδομένων καὶ μὴ ἐκδεδομένων· (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 7 5:1)
  • καὶ δεξάμενοσ παρῆλθεν, ὁ δὲ κόλαξ τρέχει καταδιώκει δεξιοῦται πόρρωθεν, ἂν προσαγορευθῇ πρότερον ὀφθείσ, ἀπολογεῖται μετὰ μαρτύρων καὶ ὁρ́κων πολλάκισ, οὕτωσ ἐν ταῖσ πράξεσι πολλὰ παραλείπουσιν οἱ φίλοι τῶν μικρῶν, οὐκ ἐξακριβοῦντεσ οὐδὲ πολυπραγμονοῦντεσ οὐδέν, οὐδ’ ἑαυτοὺσ εἰσ πᾶσαν ὑπουργίαν ἐμβάλλοντεσ. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 21 4:1)

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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