ἀπολογήσασθαι (apologesasthai)

ἀπολογήσασθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπολογέομαι, meaning “defend oneself”. It is the aorist middle/passive infinitive.

Found 73 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Bacchae 41: Σεμέλης τε μητρὸς ἀπολογήσασθαί μʼ ὕπερ

Plutarch, Publicola 7.1: … επραγμένοις· πρὸς δὲ τὴν Κολλατίνου μαλακίαν καὶ μέλλησιν ἀνεθάρρησαν οἱ Ἀκύλλιοι, καὶ χρόνον ἠξίουν λαβόντες ἀπολογήσασθαι, καὶ τὸν Οὐινδίκιον αὐτοῖς ἀποδοθῆναι δοῦλον ὄντα, καὶ μὴ παρὰ τοῖς κατηγόροις εἶναι.

All forms of ἀπολογέομαι (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.