Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • εἰ δέ μου ἀκούσαιτε ^ ὑπὲρ τῆσ τέχνησ δικαιολογουμένου, μάθοιτ’ ἂν ὡσ οὔτε πάντα ἡμῖν δυνατά ἐστιν οὔθ’ αἱ τῶν νοσημάτων φύσεισ παραπλήσιοι οὔτ’ ἰάσισ ἡ αὐτὴ οὔτε φάρμακα τὰ αὐτὰ ἐπὶ πάντων ἰσχυρά, καὶ τότ’ ἔσται δῆλον ὡσ πάμπολυ τοῦ μὴ βούλεσθαί τι τὸ μὴ δύνασθαι διαφέρει. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 26:5)
  • ὃ καὶ θαυμάζω σου δικαιολογουμένου νῦν ἐφ’ οἷσ δι’ Ἀρχελάου παρεκάλεισ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 8 7:8)

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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