ἀπολογεῖσθαι (apologeisthai)

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

Found 113 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Theseus and Romulus 5.2: … οις δικασταῖς αἰτίαν ἀποφυγεῖν πατροκτονίας· ὃ δὴ καὶ συνιδών τις Ἀττικὸς ἀνὴρ ὡς παγχάλεπόν ἐστι βουλομένοις ἀπολογεῖσθαι, πλάττει τὸν Αἰγέα τῆς νεὼς προσφερομένης ὑπὸ σπουδῆς ἀνατρέχοντα πρὸς τὴν ἀκρόπολιν θέας ἕνεκα καὶ σφαλλόμεν …

Plutarch, Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero 1.5: λέγεται δὲ Κάτωνος Ἠίουρήναν διώκοντος ὐπατεύων ἀπολογείσθαι καὶ πολλὰ διὰ τὸν Κάτωνα κωμωδεὶν τὴν Στωικὴν αἰρεσιν ἐπι ταὶς ἀτοπίαις τῶν παραδόξων λεγομένων δογμάτων γέλω …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 8.25.3: αὐτῶν εἰληφότα πολλὰς καὶ μεγάλας. ἃ μὲν οὖν ἀπολογεῖσθαί τε περὶ ἡμῶν αὐτῶν εἴχομεν καὶ παραιτεῖσθαί σε περὶ τῶν δημοτικῶν, ταῦτʼ ἐστιν, ἃ δʼ ὑποτίθεσθαί σοι διʼ εὔνο …

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.