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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

  • "ἀμφισβητούντων Ἀθηναίων πρὸσ Βοιωτοὺσ περὶ τῆσ χώρασ ἣν καλοῦσι Σίδασ, Ἐπαμινώνδασ δικαιολογούμενοσ ἐξαίφνησ ἐκ τῆσ ἀριστερᾶσ μεταλαβὼν κεκρυμμένην ῥόαν καὶ δείξασ ἤρετο τί καλοῦσι τοῦτο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 6241)
  • ὃσ διασκοπούντων ἡμῶν ὅ τι χρὴ λέγειν, καὶ Κίμωνοσ εἰπόντοσ ὅτι φοβοῖτο μὴ δικαιολογούμενοσ περιγένοιτο ἡμῶν ὁ Φίλιπποσ, πηγὰσ δὴ λόγων ἐπηγγέλλετο, καὶ περὶ τῶν δικαίων τῶν ὑπὲρ Ἀμφιπόλεωσ καὶ τῆσ ἀρχῆσ τοῦ πολέμου τοιαῦτα ἐρεῖν ἔφη, ὥστε ἀπορράψειν τὸ Φιλίππου στόμα ὁλοσχοίνῳ ἀβρόχῳ καὶ πείσειν Ἀθηναίουσ μὲν καταδέξασθαι Λεωσθένην, Φίλιππον δ’ Ἀθηναίοισ Ἀμφίπολιν ἀποδοῦναι. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 212)
  • Ὅτι κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν τοῦτον Κότυσ ὁ τῶν Ὀδρυσῶν βασιλεὺσ ἀπέστειλε πρεσβευτὰσ εἰσ τὴν Ῥώμην, ἀξιῶν ἀποδοθῆναι τὸν υἱὸν αὑτῷ καὶ περὶ τῆσ γενομένησ πρὸσ Περσέα κοινοπραγίασ δικαιολογούμενοσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 30, b. olymp. 153, 2. i. res italiae 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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