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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

  • ἀνάβαιν’, ἀπολογοῦ. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode 1:39)
  • μὴ σύ γε, ἀλλ’ ὑπὲρ ὧν ἀγωνίζει, περὶ τούτων ἀπολογοῦ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 316:4)
  • μὴ οὖν, ὅπου ποτὲ ἔπραττεσ, ἐρώτα, ἀλλ’ ὡσ οὐ πεποίηκασ, τοῦτο ἀπολογοῦ. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1246)
  • ταῦθ’, ἃ μέλλεισ λέγειν ἐνθάδε, πρὸσ ἅπαντασ τοὺσ πολίτασ ἀθρόουσ ἀπολογοῦ, εἴτε ὡσ ἀπὸ τοῦ βελτίστου τὰ κράτιστα συνεβούλευεσ τούτοισ καὶ συνήνεγκεν ἂν τῇ πόλει ταῦτα γενόμενα, εἴτε ὡσ οὐκ ἔστι δίκαιον λόγων εὐθύνασ ὑπέχειν τοὺσ ἀποφαινομένουσ ἐνθάδε τὰσ γνώμασ, εἴτε ὡσ οὐκ ἐκ προνοίασ οὐδὲ ἐπιβουλῆσ, ἀλλ’ ὀργῇ ἐπιτρέψασ τὰ μιαρὰ ταῦτα παραινεῖν προήχθησ, εἴθ’ ὁτιδήποτε ἄλλο ἀπολόγημα ἔχεισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 45 5:1)
  • ἐὰν τίσ σοι ἀπαγγείλῃ ὅτι ὁ δεῖνά σε κακῶσ λέγει, μὴ ἀπολογοῦ πρὸσ τὰ λεχθέντα, ἀλλ’ ἀποκρίνου διότι "ἠγνόει γὰρ τὰ ἄλλα τὰ προσόντα μοι κακά, ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἂν ταῦτα μόνα ἔλεγεν" 3. (Epictetus, Works, chapter 33 9:1)

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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