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δικαιολογέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δικαιολογέομαι

Structure: δικαιολογέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: lo/gos

Sense

  1. to plead one's cause before the judge
  2. advocates

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

  • δεῖ δέ, ὦ βέλτιστε, μὴ ἐπὶ τῷ Ὀλυμπιάδοσ ὀνόματι καὶ τῷ Ἀλεξάνδρου τῶν πολιτῶν τινα ζητεῖν κακόν τι ἐργάσασθαι, ἀλλ’ ὅταν ἐκεῖνοι πρὸσ τὸν δῆμον τὸν Ἀθηναίων ἐπιστέλλωσι μὴ τὰ δίκαια μηδὲ τὰ προσήκοντα, τότε ἀναστάντα ὑπὲρ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἀντιλέγειν καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἥκοντασ παρ’ αὐτῶν δικαιολογεῖσθαι καὶ εἰσ τὸ κοινὸν τῶν Ἑλλήνων συνέδριον πορεύεσθαι βοηθήσοντα τῇ πατρίδι. (Hyperides, Speeches, 19:4)
  • "οὐκ ἂν ἐσπούδαζον περὶ αὐτῆσ τῆσ ἐγγυθήκησ δικαιολογεῖσθαι, ἣ οὔκ ἐστιν ἀξία τριάκοντα δραχμῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 45 1:2)
  • "καὶ πολλάκισ ἀπογραφομένουσ πλείουσ δικαιολογεῖσθαι καθ’ ὃ δικαιότατόσ ἐστιν ἕκαστοσ αὐτῶν ἀποτυμπανισθῆναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 40 1:2)
  • περιειστήκει δὲ τέωσ τὸ πλῆθοσ δικαιολογεῖσθαι μακρότερα τοὺσ εἰσελθόντασ οἰόμενον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 769:3)
  • δικαιολογεῖσθαι. (Polybius, Histories, book 3, chapter 21 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. to plead one's cause before the judge

  2. advocates

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

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