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

  • τό τε γὰρ μὴ ἑώλον εἶναι τὴν κρίσιν, ἀλλὰ καινὴν καὶ ξένην χθέσ, ὥσπερ ἔφησ, ἐπηγγελμένην,^ καὶ τὸ ἐλπίζειν ἀκούσεσθαι Ῥητορικῆσ μὲν καὶ Διαλόγου ἐν τῷ μέρει κατηγορούντων, ἀπολογουμένου δὲ πρὸσ ἀμφοτέρουσ τοῦ Σύρου, τοῦτο πολλοὺσ ἐπήγαγε τῷ δικαστηρίῳ. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 25:10)
  • εἴσῃ αὐτίκα, ἢν ἐθέλῃσ ἀπολογουμένου ἀκούειν μόνον. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 15:10)
  • ἵνα γ’, ἢν καθεύδῃσ ἀπολογουμένου τινόσ, ᾄδων ἄνωθεν ἐξεγείρῃ σ’ οὑτοσί. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode 1:13)
  • καὶ αὐτίκα μάλ’ ὑμᾶσ ἀξιώσει ἀκούειν αὐτοῦ ἀπολογουμένου κατὰ τοὺσ νόμουσ· (Lycurgus, Speeches, 200:1)
  • τοῦτο μὲν οὖν οὐκ οἶ δα ὅπωσ ὁ Κικέρων, εἴπερ ἦν ἀληθέσ, ἐν τῷ περὶ τῆσ ὑπατείασ οὐκ ἔγραψεν αἰτίαν δὲ εἶχεν ὕστερον ὡσ ἄριστα τῷ καιρῷ τότε παρασχόντι κατὰ τοῦ Καίσαροσ μὴ χρησάμενοσ, ἀλλ’ ἀποδειλιάσασ τὸν δῆμον ὑπερφυῶσ περιεχόμενον τοῦ Καίσαροσ, ὅσ γε καὶ μετ’ ὀλίγασ ἡμέρασ εἰσ τὴν βουλὴν εἰσελθόντοσ αὐτοῦ καὶ περὶ ὧν ἐν ὑποψίαισ ἦν ἀπολογουμένου καὶ περιπίπτοντοσ θορύβοισ πονηροῖσ, ἐπειδὴ πλείων τοῦ συνήθουσ ἐγίγνετο τῇ βουλῇ καθεζομένῃ χρόνοσ, ἐπῆλθε μετὰ κραυγῆσ καὶ περιέστη τὴν σύγκλητον, ἀπαιτῶν τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ κελεύων ἀφεῖναι. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 8 3:1)

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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