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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

  • μᾶλλον δὲ πολὺ μετριώτεροσ ἐκεῖνοσ, ἔρωτι μὲν ἁλούσ, ὡσ ἔφασκεν ἀπολογούμενοσ, ἑκὼν δὲ μάλα εὐψύχωσ ἐσ τὸ πῦρ ἁλλόμενοσ, καίτοι ἐλεούντων αὐτὸν ἤδη Κροτωνιατῶν καὶ ἐνδιδόντων φυγεῖν, εἰ βούλοιτο. (Lucian, Apologia 11:3)
  • οὗτοσ δ’ οὖν μαρτυρεῖν γὰρ αὐτῷ ἔχω ^ μήτε μελλήσασ μήτε σύμβουλόν τινα περὶ τούτων προσλαβών, ἐπειδὴ τὸ πᾶν ἤκουσε τῶν παρόντων, ἔλυε μὲν τὴν ἀποκήρυξιν, υἱὸν δὲ ἐξ ὑπαρχῆσ ἐποιεῖτό με, σωτῆρα καὶ εὐεργέτην ἀποκαλῶν καὶ ἀκριβῆ πεῖραν εἰληφέναι ὁμολογῶν καὶ περὶ τῶν ἔμπροσθεν ἐκείνων ἀπολογούμενοσ. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 5:1)
  • αὐτοῦ σοι λόγον ἐρῶ ὃν ἔλεξε πρὸσ τὴν πανήγυριν, ἀπολογούμενοσ πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ ὑπὲρ τῆσ τελευτῆσ. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 2:6)
  • καὶ ποιῶ πάντων ἀτοπώτατον, ὡσ οὗτόσ φησι, πρότερον μὲν ἐναντίον τῇ τῆσ βουλῆσ ἀποφάσει ἀγῶνα ἀπολογούμενοσ ὑπὲρ ἐμαυτοῦ, νυνὶ δὲ συνηγορῶν αὐτῇ, κατηγορῶν τούτου περὶ τῆσ γεγενημένησ ἀποφάσεωσ· (Dinarchus, Speeches, 58:1)
  • εἶτ’ ἀπολογούμενοσ Ιὤνα ἔφη ἀνελόμενον ἐν τῇ ταραχῇ δοῦναι αὐτῷ, ὅπωσ μὴ ἀπόλοιτο, καὶ ὁ Ιὤν κηδεμονικῶσ ἔλεγε τοῦτο πεποιηκέναι, ἐπὶ τούτοισ διελύθη τὸ συμπόσιον τελευτῆσαν ἐκ τῶν δακρύων αὖθισ ἐσ γέλωτα ἐπὶ τῷ Ἀλκιδάμαντι καὶ Διονυσοδώρῳ καὶ Ιὤνι. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 46:5)

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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