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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

  • πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ γ’, ἢν δίκην λέγῃ μακράν τισ, οὐχὶ πεινῶν ἀναμενεῖσ δάκνων σεαυτὸν καὶ τὸν ἀπολογούμενον. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode19)
  • αἰτοῦμαι οὖν ὑμᾶσ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ, εὔνοιαν πλείω παρασχέσθαι ἐμοὶ τῷ ἀπολογουμένῳ ἢ τοῖσ κατηγόροισ, εἰδότασ ὅτι κἂν ἐξ ἴσου ἀκροᾶσθε, ἀνάγκη τὸν ἀπολογούμενον ἔλαττον ἔχειν. (Andocides, Speeches, 10:1)
  • πρῶτον μὲν οὖν περὶ νόμων εἴπωμεν, πῶσ χρηστέον καὶ προτρέποντα καὶ ἀποτρέποντα καὶ κατηγοροῦντα καὶ ἀπολογούμενον. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 15 3:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ συμβουλεύοντα τῷ Ἀχιλλεῖ, καὶ ἐπαινοῦντα καὶ ψέγοντα, καὶ κατηγοροῦντα καὶ ἀπολογούμενον ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ, τὰ ὑπάρχοντα ἢ δοκοῦντα ὑπάρχειν ληπτέον, ἵν’ ἐκ τούτων λέγωμεν, ἐπαινοῦντεσ ἢ ψέγοντεσ εἴ τι καλὸν ἢ αἰσχρὸν ὑπάρχει, κατηγοροῦντεσ δ’ ἢ ἀπολογούμενοι εἴ τι δίκαιον ἢ ἄδικον, συμβουλεύοντεσ δ’ εἴ τι συμφέρον ἢ βλαβερόν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 22 8:2)
  • διὸ καὶ ἀεὶ ἔστι πλεονεκτεῖν ἀπολογούμενον μᾶλλον ἢ κατηγοροῦντα διὰ τοῦτον τὸν παραλογισμόν· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 25 10:1)

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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