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ὑπόστᾰσις, εως, ἡ,
(ὑφίστημι, ὑφίσταμαι): as an act, standing under, supporting, ἡ κεφαλὴ τοῦ μηροῦ καὶ ὁ αὐχὴν τοῦ ἄρθρου.. ὑπὸ συχνῷ μέρει τοῦ ἰσχίου τὴν ὑ. πεποίηται [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 55; [τοὺς προσθίους πόδας] ἔχουσιν.. οὐ μόνον ἕνεχ᾽ ὑποστάσεως τοῦ βάρους 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 659a24; ἐνεπάγην εἰς ἰλὺν βυθοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ὑ. LXX.Psa.68(69).3. ] LXX+5th c.BC+]
__2 resistance, τοῦ κύματος [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 368b12 ] Refs 4th c.BC+] (unless = settling down); so perhaps in [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “κατ᾽ ἰητρεῖον” 3, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Fragmenta” 59. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 lying in ambush, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 719. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B as a thing,
__B.I in liquids, that which settles at the bottom, sediment, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Steril.” 242, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 551b29, “Mete.” 382b14, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 9.8.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially of sediment in the urine, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 146, 389, “Aph.” 4.69, +others, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.252, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but the urine itself is called ἡ ὑ. ἡ εἰς τὴν κύστιν, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 358a8; ἡ τῆς ὑγρᾶς τροφῆς ὑ. [prev. author] “PA” 647b28; ἐκ τῶν νεφρῶν ἡ γιγνομένη ὑ. [prev. work] 671b20; also of the dry excrement, ἡ τῆς ξηρᾶς τροφῆς ὑ. [prev. work] 647b28, compare 677a15, “Mete.” 358b9. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __B.I.b an accumulation of pus, abscess, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 40. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.I.2 νέφους ὑποστάσεις cloud-cumuli, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.38. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__B.I.3 a kind of jelly or thick soup, in plural, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 462.10 (compare 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 6.60), 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 4.8.1. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.I.4 metaphorically of time, duration, ἡ στιγμιαία τῶν καιρῶν ὑ. [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.187 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; μνήσθητι τίς μου ἡ ὑ. remember how short my time is, [[ LXX.Psa.88(89).48 ] LXX]; ἡ ὑ. μου ὡσεὶ οὐθὲν ἐνώπιόν σου mine age is as nothing before thee, [[[prev. work] 38(39).6 ] Refs]; ἐφ᾽ ὅσον αὐτοῦ (i.e. Ἕκτορος) ἡ ὑ. τῶν χρόνων ὑπῆρχεν as long as his store of years lasted, [[ 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 347.14. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__B.I.5 coming into existence, origin, ἡ ὑ. μου ἐν τοῖς κατωτάτω τῆς γῆς [[ LXX.Psa.138(139).15; περὶ τοῦ γένους.. τῶν Ἰουδαίων.. ὅτι.. τὴν πρώτην ὑ. ἔσχεν ἰδίαν 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “contra Apionem” 1.1 ] LXX+1st c.AD+]; ἀκμὴ οὐδὲ ἔχει γενέσεως ὑ. καθ᾽ ἑαυτήν has no power of originating by itself, [[ 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ ἰδεῶν” 1.10. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__B.II foundation or substructure of a temple, etc., [[ LXX.Nah.2.7, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.66, 13.82 ] LXX+1st c.BC+]; ὑποστάσεις ἐπάλξεων lower part of a crenellated wall, [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 84.9 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ὑ. ξύλου is falsa lectio for{ὑπότασις ξ}. in [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Mochl.” 25. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.2 metaphorically of a narrative, speech, or poem, ground-work, subject-matter, argument, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.2.1, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.3, etc. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__B.II.3 plan, purpose, [[ [prev. author] 16.32; κατὰ τὴν ἰδίαν ὑ. [prev. author] 1.28, 15.70; πρὸς τὴν ἰδίαν ὑ. [prev. author] 1.3 ] Refs]; οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι.. ἰδίᾳ τινὶ ὑ. κεχρημένοι εἰσί (i.e. in their calendar) [[ 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 8.16, compare 25; κατὰ τὴν Καίσαρος ὑ. “BMus.Inscription” 892.21 (Halic., 1st c.BC-1st c.AD). ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__B.II.4 confidence, courage, resolution, steadiness, of soldiers, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.50.10, 6.55.2 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; hope, ἔστι μοι ὑ. τοῦ γενηθῆναί με ἀνδρί [[ LXX.Ruth.1.12 ] LXX]; ἀπώλετο ἡ ὑ. αὐτῆς[[LXX.Eze.19.5, cf. NT.Heb.3.14; ἡ ὑ. τῆς καυχήσεως NT.2Cor.11.17, compare 9.4 ] LXX+NT]; ἔστιν δὲ πίστις ἐλπιζομένων ὑπόστασις confidence in things hoped for, [[ NT.Heb.11.1 ] NT] (unless substance be the right sense here).
__B.II.5 undertaking, promise, οἱ ὑπογεγραμμένοι γεωργοὶ ἐπέδωκαν ἡμῖν ὑπόστασιν [[ “PEleph.” 15.3 (3rd c.BC),compare “PTheb.Bank” 1.8 (2nd c.BC), “PTeb.” 61 (b). 194 (2nd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__B.II.6 Astrology texts, τὰ τούτου (i.e. κλήρου τύχης) τετράγωνα ὑπόστασις (perhaps -στάσεις) [λέγεται] [[ 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Serapio Astrologus in “Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 8(4).227. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__B.III substantial nature, substance, δύσσχιστα, τῷ κολλώδη τὴν ὑ. ἔχειν woods hard to cleave, because of their resinous substance, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 5.16.4; ἡ τοῦ γεώδους ὑ. [prev. work] 6.7.4. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.III.2 substance, actual existence, reality (οἱ νεώτεροι τῶν φιλοσόφων ἀντὶ τῆς οὐσίας τῇ λέξει τῆς ὑ. ἐχρήσαντο [[ 5th-4th c.BC: Socratis et Socraticorum Epistulae “HE” 3.7), opposed to semblance, φαντασίαν μὲν ἔχειν πλούτου, ὑ. δὲ μή 2nd c.AD: Artemidorus Daldianus Onirocriticus 3.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῶν ἐν ἀέρι φαντασμάτων τὰ μέν ἐστι κατ᾽ ἔμφασιν, τὰ δὲ καθ᾽ ὑπόστασιν (substantial, actual), [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 395a30, compare “Placita Philosophorum” 3.6, 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 7.135, 9.91 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; so ὑποστάσεις are the substances of which the reflections (αἱ κατοπτρικαὶ ἐμφάσεις) appear in the mirror, [[ “Placita Philosophorum” 4.14.2] Refs]; ὑ. ἔχειν have substantial existence, [[ 2nd c.BC: Demetrius Lacon Philosophus “Herc.” 1055.14, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 2.94, 176, 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 9.42 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἰδίᾳ χρησάμενον ὑποστάσει (ὑποτάσει codex), πρὸς ἰδίαν ὑ. φυτευθέντα, a separate existence, [[ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.96, compare 33; ὑπόστασιν μὴ ἔχειν [prev. author] 2.57; ὑποστάσεις τε καὶ μεταβολαί 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 9.1, compare 10.5 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; [ἡ παρασιτικὴ] διαφέρει καὶ τῆς ῥητορικῆς καὶ τῆς φιλοσοφίας.. κατὰ τὴν ὑ. (in respect of reality) · ἡ μὲν γὰρ ὑφέστηκεν, αἱ δὲ οὔ [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Par.” 27; κατ᾽ ἰδίαν ὑ. καὶ οὐσίαν 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 9.338. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__B.III.3 real nature, essence, χαρακτὴρ τῆς ὑ. [[ NT.Heb.1.3. ] NT]
__B.IV as a Rhet. figure, the full expression or expansion of an idea, [[ 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ ἰδεῶν” 1.11, 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “τέχναι ῥητορικαί” 1p.479S., 5th c.AD: Syrianus Philosophus et Rhetor “in Hermogenem commentaria” 1.60 R. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__B.V ={ὑπόστημα} [[ 111, ] Refs]camp, [[ LXX.1Ki.13.23, 14.4. ] LXX]
__B.VI wealth, substance, property,[[LXX.Deu.11.6, LXX.Jer.10.17, “POxy.” 1274.15 (3rd c.AD), “BGU” 1020.16 (6th c.AD), etc. ] LXX+3rd c.AD+]
__B.VI.2 plural, title deeds, documents recording ownership of property, [[ POxy. 237 viii 26 (2nd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
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