apologia

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Έγ', ὦ ταλαίπωρ', αὐτὸς ὧν χρείᾳ πάρει. Τὰ πολλὰ γάρ τοι ῥήματ' ἢ τέρψαντά τι, ἢ δυσχεράναντ', ἢ κατοικτίσαντά πως, παρέσχε φωνὴν τοῖς ἀφωνήτοις τινά –> Wretched brother, tell him what you need. A multitude of words can be pleasurable, burdensome, or they can arouse pity somehow — they give a kind of voice to the voiceless.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1280-4

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

ăpŏlŏgĭa: ae, f., = ἀπολογία>,
I a defence, apology, Hier. ap. Ruf. 2, 4; 2, 6 al. —Also, the title of a work by Apuleius of Madaura; cf. Bähr, Gesch. Rom. Lit. p. 411; Teuffel, Rom. Lit. § 362.