letting down, slackening,
ὕφεσις,εως,ἡ, (ὑφίημι)
A. letting down, slackening,of strings in music, Plu. 2.389e ; τῆς φωνῆς
Antyll.
ap. Orib. 6.9.5 ;relaxation,
σωμάτων μυωδῶν
Gal. 19.403
; of the pulse, Ruf. Syn.Puls. 6.5 ;lowering,
τῶν ἀκοντίων
Arr. Tact. 38.3
.
2. complaisance,
ἐπὶ τῶν πραγμάτων
Plu. Ant. 24
; πρὸς τοὺς φίλους
Id. 2.808c
; χάρις . . ὕφεσις ἀκριβείας ἐν δέοντι
Favorin.
ap. Gell. 1.3.27 .
II.
= ὑφαίρεσις
111 , A.D. Pron. 51.5 , EM 36.33 ; ἡ ὕ. τῆς προθέσεως
A.D. Conj. 247.12
.
2. Arithm.,subtraction,
David Proll. 54.20 ;loweringof numbers, Ph. 1.187 .
III. descent in the scale, abasement,
Procl. in Prm. p.618
S.,Inst. 29 , al.; joined withὑπόβασις(q. v.), Aristid.
Quint. 3.10 ; κατὰ ὕφεσιν
Dam. Pr. 34
, cf. 69 , 91 ;subordination, subjectionas a form of relation, Elias in Porph. 203.5 :—ἐν ὑφέσει: ἐν ἐλαττώσει,
Hsch.
