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

  • εἰ δ’ ἀπολογοῖτό ποτε, λέγων ὡσ οὐδὲν τοιοῦτον εἴργασται, ἀναίσχυντοσ ἐδόκει καὶ πολὺ πλέον ἐπὶ τούτῳ ἐμισεῖτο. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 28:2)
  • φέρε γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ, εἴ τισ ἕνα νόμον εἰσ τὸ Μητρῷον ἐλθὼν ἐξαλείψειεν, εἶτ’ ἀπολογοῖτο ὡσ οὐδὲν παρὰ τοῦτον τῇ πόλει ἐστίν, ἆρ’ οὐκ ἂν ἀπεκτείνατ’ αὐτόν; (Lycurgus, Speeches, 87:3)
  • σκόπει γάρ, τί ἂν ἀπολογοῖτο ὁ τοιοῦτοσ ἄνθρωποσ ἐν τούτοισ ληφθείσ, εἰ αὐτοῦ κατηγοροῖ τισ λέγων ὅτι "ὦ παῖδεσ, πολλὰ ὑμᾶσ καὶ κακὰ ὅδε εἴργασται ἀνὴρ καὶ αὐτούσ, καὶ τοὺσ νεωτάτουσ ὑμῶν διαφθείρει τέμνων τε καὶ κάων, καὶ ἰσχναίνων καὶ πνίγων ἀπορεῖν ποιεῖ, πικρότατα πώματα διδοὺσ καὶ πεινῆν καὶ διψῆν ἀναγκάζων, οὐχ ὥσπερ ἐγὼ πολλὰ καὶ ἡδέα καὶ παντοδαπὰ ηὐώχουν ὑμᾶσ· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 455:2)

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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