.— collat. form ofὑπέχομαι,which supplies several of its tenses, and even inpres.is used = ὑπισχνέομαι , App. Mith. 16 , 20 , PBrem. 36.10 , PRyl. 96.9 , PGiss. 5.10 (allii A. D.), etc. (ὑπίσχομαιwas replaced byὑπισχνέομαιunder the influence of the oppositeἀρνέομαι):—take upon oneself,i. e.undertake to do,
; so in Trag. and Att. , S. Ph. 615 , E. Tr. 930 , Pl. Phdr. 235d , etc.; alsoὑ. ἦ μὴν . . ,c.inf. fut., X. Cyr. 6.2.3 : c. acc. etinf. fut., ἐγὼ δέ τοι αὐτὸν ὑπίσχομαι . . τείσειν
Od. 8.347
, cf. A. Eu. 804 .
c. c.inf. aor., only f.l., as in X. An. 1.2.2 , 2.3.19 (where the variantsπαύσεσθαι, βουλεύσεσθαιare now accepted), while in Cyr. 2.2.12 , 6.1.21 , An. 7.2.24 he usesinf. fut.; in D. 42.17 , forἀποφαίνεινCobet restoresἀποφανεῖν.
d. freq. with a neut.Adj., μεγάλα ὑ.
Hdt. 2.152
, al.: without acc.,ὑπίσχεται ἀνδρὶ ἑκάστῳ she makes promisesto each man, Od. 2.91 ; ὑπισχνέεται καὶ ὤμοσε