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ἀπολογητέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπολογητέος ἀπολογητέα ἀπολογητέον

Structure: ἀπολογητε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)pologe/omai의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must defend

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • πρὶν μὲν γὰρ τοῦτο πρᾶξαι Λεωκράτην ἄδηλον ἦν ὁποῖοί τινεσ ὄντεσ ἐτύγχανον, νῦν δὲ πᾶσι φανερὸν ὅτι τοῖσ αὐτοῖσ ἤθεσι χρώμενοι τὴν πρὸσ τοῦτον φιλίαν διαφυλάττουσιν, ὥστε πολὺ πρότερον ὑπὲρ αὑτῶν αὐτοῖσ ἐστιν ἀπολογητέον ἢ τοῦτον παρ’ ὑμῶν ἐξαιτητέον. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 188:4)
  • σχεδὸν δ’ εἰσ λόγον ὁ λόγοσ ἥκει μοι συνεχὴσ τῷ νυνδὴ γενόμενοσ, περὶ οὗ μοι τὸ δεύτερον ἀπολογητέον ἔφην εἶναι. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 3 27:1)
  • ἀπολογητέον δή, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, καὶ ἐπιχειρητέον ὑμῶν ἐξελέσθαι τὴν διαβολὴν ἣν ὑμεῖσ ἐν πολλῷ χρόνῳ ἔσχετε ταύτην ἐν οὕτωσ ὀλίγῳ χρόνῳ. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 15:2)
  • ὅμωσ τοῦτο μὲν ἴτω ὅπῃ τῷ θεῷ φίλον, τῷ δὲ νόμῳ πειστέον καὶ ἀπολογητέον. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 17:2)
  • ἔτυχον γὰρ ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν τούτων συνεδρεύοντεσ οἱ πατρίκιοι διαποροῦντεσ, εἴτ’ ἀπολογητέον αὐτοῖσ εἰή πρὸσ τὸν δῆμον ὑπὲρ ὧν διεβλήθησαν, εἴτε μενετέον ἐφ’ ἡσυχίασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 27 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. one must defend

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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