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ἀπολογ-έομαι , aor.
A.“ἀπελογησάμην” E.Ba.41, Antipho 5.13, but f.l. in Pl.Sph.261c, X.An.5.6.3; also aor. Pass. “ἀπελογήθην” Antipho 2.3.1, al., Alex.12 (prob. suprious in X.HG1.4.13): pf. “ἀπολελόγημαι” And.1.33, Isoc.12.218 (in pass. sense, Pl.R.607b):—speak in defence, defend oneself, opp. κατηγορεῖν, περί τινος about a thing, Antipho 5.7, Th.1.72; πρὸς τὴν μαρτυρίαν in reference or answer to the evidence, Antipho 2.4.3, cf. Th.6.29; “πρός τινας” before . ., Eup.357, cf. Plb. 22.6.4: later, c. dat., “κατηγορίαις” Plu. Them.23; ἀ. ὑπέρ τινος speak in another's behalf, Hdt.7.161, E.Ba.41, Pl.R.488a, etc.; ἀ. ὑπέρ τινος speak in support of a fact, Antipho 3.2.1; “ὑπὲρ τῆς ἀδικίας” Pl. Grg.480b; πρὸς Μέλητον in answer to him, Id.Ap.24b: abs., “παρὼν ἀ.” Hdt.6.136, Ar.Th.188; “ὁ ἀπολογούμενος” the defendant, Id.V.778, And.1.6.
2. c. acc. rei, defend oneself against, “ἀ. τὰς διαβολάς” Th. 8.109; τὰς πράξεις defend what one has done, Aeschin.1.92.
3. ἀ. τι ἔς τι allege in one's defence against a charge, Th.3.63; “ἀ. πρὸς τὰ κατηγορημένα μηδέν” Lys.12.38; “τί ποτε ἀπολογήσεσθαι μέλλει μοι;” Antipho 1.7 codd.; “ταῦτα ἀ. ὡς . .” Pl.Phd.69d; “ἔργοις καλλίστοις ἀ. ὡς . .” Lys.2.65; “ἀ. ὅτι οὐδένα ἀδικῶ” X.Oec.11.22; “ἀ. ἀπολογίαν” Luc. Hes.6.
4. ἀ. δίκην θανάτου speak against sentence of death passing on one, Th.8.68.—Prose word, used once in Trag., v. supr.—The Prep. ἀπό implies the remoual of a charge.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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