ὑπόνοια, ἡ,
(ὑπονοέω) suspicion, conjecture, guess, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 993 (_plural_, _anapaest meter_); τοῦ μὴ συνειληφέναι 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.54, compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.663] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑπόνοιαι τῶν μελλόντων notions formed of future events, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.87; ἡ ὑ. τῶν ἔργων [prev. author] 2.41, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1133 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in bad sense, ὑπόνοιαι πλασταί [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 48.39, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 732. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 suggestion, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.71 K.] Refs 1st c.BC+]; imputation, [[ [prev. author] “D.” 1.13. ] Refs]
__II the real meaning which lies at the bottom of a thing, deeper sense, τὰς ὑ. οὐκ ἐπίστανται [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 3.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially covert meaning (such as is conveyed by myths and allegories), ὁ.. νέος οὐχ οἷός τε κρίνειν ὅτι τε ὑ. καὶ ὃ μή [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 378d, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.19e] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to αἰσχρολογία, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1128a24; καθ᾽ ὑπόνοιαν ] Refs 4th c.BC+]by insinuation, covertly, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 28.4.5, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Ars Rhetorica” 9.1; δι᾽ ὑπονοιῶν 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 2.4. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]