Ἀπόκριναι

[Used] with a dative. [Meaning the same as] a)pokri/qhti.¹
Demosthenes [writes]: "come here and answer me!"²
But they say a)pokrinei=tai ["he/she/it will answer"] rather than a)pokriqh/setai.³ Menander in Basketbearer [writes]: "but these things he will answer, even if I myself speak to you."⁴ In Suppositious Girl [he writes]: "but to speak thus not answering at all."⁵
Also [sc. attested is the related noun] a)po/krisis ["answer"], [meaning] defense. Thus Lysias and Antiphon [sc. use the word].⁶ But Demosthenes too says likewise in the [speech] against Aeschines: "come here," he says, "and answer me."⁷