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place under, ὑπὸ κύκλα ἑκάστῳ πυθμένι θῆκεν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.375 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὰ φρύγαν᾽ ὑ. puts the firewood under, [[ 5th c.BC: Teleclides Comicus 40 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θεοῦ βάσεις ὑποτιθέντος putting legs or feet under them, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 92a, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 686a34; σιδηρᾶς κανονίδας ὑ. 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 57.11, compare 60.31, +others; ὑπὸ ποταμοὺς πολλοὺς.. πόλιν ὑ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 682c; κύλικα ὑπὸ τὴν κλίνην “IG” 12(5).593.21 (Iulis, 5th c.BC); ὀχετὸν ἐκποιήσαντι καὶ ὑποθέντι [prev. work] 12.373.66; [φοίνικας] ὑ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.12; ἀλεκτορίδι ὑ. τὰ ᾠά 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 564b3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἑαυτὴν [τῷ ἄρρενι][[ [prev. work] 540a11; ὑ. [τι] ὑπὸ τὸν ὀφθαλμόν [prev. author] “Pr.” 874a9 ] Refs]; of a prancing horse, ὑ. τὰ ὀπίσθια σκέλη ὑπὸ τὰ ἐμπρόσθια [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 11.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ὄπισθεν σκέλη διὰ πολλοῦ ὑ. bring up his hind legs far apart from one another,[[ [prev. work] 1.14; κατακλίνεται [ὁ λαγὼς] ὑποθεὶς τὰ ὑποκώλια ὑπὸ τὰς λαγόνας [prev. author] “Cyn.” 5.10: _metaphorically_, ὑποχειρίους τοῖς ἐχθροῖς ὑ. τὰς αὑτῶν πατρίδας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 308a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔστε ὑπέθηκε Ἀΐδᾳ until he handed him over to Hades, of a hound attacking a boar, [[ “PCair.Zen.” 532.11 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]:—middle, place under one's feet, τι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.1.41; τοὺς μηροὺς ὑφ᾽ αὑτά 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Incessu Animalium” 713a23. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 place under a certain class, γεωργικῇ, θηρευτικῇ, etc., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 289a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2.b subjoin, enclose, append a document, ὑποτέθεικά σοι τὸ ἀντίγραφον [[ “PLille” 4.2 (3rd c.BC),compare “Sammelb.” 5675.2 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+], etc.: so in middle, [[ “PLond.” 3.921.10 (2nd-3rd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II set before one, offer, suggest, τὴν ἐν φίλοις δικαιοτάτην ὑπόθεσιν ἔχω ὑποτιθέναι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.5.13 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; hold out hope, ὑποτιθεῖς τίν᾽ ἐλπίδ; [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1186, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.8.28, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.58, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.256a, “Lys.” 23, 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor 1.379 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus; τοῦ Ἑλληνικοῦ ἐλπίδα ἣν ὑπετίθει αὐτῷ δουλώσειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.138; ἡ εὐπραγία ὑ. ἰσχὺν τῆς ἐλπίδος [prev. author] 4.65 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑπέθηκας ὀρθῶς τοὺς λόγους, i. e. you have given good advice, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 507 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸν ὑποθέντα τὰς τέχνας γυναιξὶ τόνδε he who proposed these tricks to the women, [[ [prev. author] “Ba.” 675 ] Refs]:—earlier in middle, suggest, βουλὴν Ἀργείοις ὑποθησόμεθ᾽ ἥ τις ὀνήσει [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.36; ὄφρα οἱ ἤ τι ἔπος ὑποθήσεαι ἠέ τι ἔργον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.163, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.788; δόλον ὑπεθήκατο 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 175; ἄλλα μὲν αὐτὸς ἐνὶ φρεσὶ σῇσι νοήσεις, ἄλλα δὲ καὶ δαίμων ὑποθήσεται 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.27; Κροῖσος ταῦτά οἱ ὑπετίθετο 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.156, compare 3.36; ἔπεμψέ με σωτηρίην ὑποθησόμενον ὑμῖν, ἤν περ βούλησθε πείθεσθαι [prev. author] 5.98, compare 7.237; σμικρὸν ὑποθέσθαι τοῖς κριταῖσι βούλομαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 1154 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: with dative person only, advise, counsel, admonish one, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.194, 5.143, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1362, “Lys.” 522 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 155d ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: with an adverb, ἀλλά μοι εὖ ὑπόθευ [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.310, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.90; αὐτάρ τοι πυκινῶς ὑποθησόμεθ᾽, αἴ κε πίθηαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.293. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II.2 middle, in stronger sense, enjoin, ταῦτα τοῖσι ὑπολειπομένοισι ὑποθέμενος ὁ Δαρεῖος [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.135 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a doctor, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 295c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of [[ 3rd c.AD: Nestor Epigrammaticus, [prev. author] “Hp.Ma.” 286b; [Μέττιος Ῥοῦφος] τῷ στρατηγῷ περὶ τούτου ὑπέθετο “POxy.” 237 vi 40 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; gloss on{ἐπιστέλλει}, [[Scholia 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 106 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Pythagoras, τὴν εἰς τὸ σπονδειακὸν μεταβολὴν ὑπέθετο τῷ αὐλητῇ [[ 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de vita Pythagorica” 25.112; τοῖς ἀπὸ τοῦ νομοῦ ὑπόδειγμα τῆς ἀπειθίας ὑ. “BGU” 747 ii 14 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; δύο σκοποὺς ὑποθέσθαι τῆς φλεβοτομίας prescribe two conditions of (successful) venesection, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.765. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.3 middle, instruct, demonstrate, γραμματικόν τι ποιῆσαι ἄλλου ὑποθεμένου [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1105a23 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; δεῖ ὑποθέσθαι τί λέγομεν τὸ βαρύ as a preliminary we must explain, [[ [prev. author] “Cael.” 269b20; ὑ. ὡς χρὴ μάχεσθαι 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Heroicus” 10.5; Φινεὺς.. τοῖς Ἀργοναύταις.. περὶ τῶν συμπληγάδων ὑπέθετο πετρῶν 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus 1.9.22; ὁ ὑποθέμενος αὐτῷ τὴν ἀνάγνωσιν 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.26.13, compare 2.2.21; παλαισμάτων εἴδη ὁπόσα ἐστί, δηλώσει ὁ παιδοτρίβης, καιρούς τε ὑποθέμενος κτλ. 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “de gymnastica” 14 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: with accusative et infinitive, ὑ. τῷ ἐπιεικεῖ παιδὶ ῥᾴδιον πεφυκέναι κτλ. [[ 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de vita Pythagorica” 10.51. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__III middle, propose to oneself as a task, πολεμιστήριον [ἵππον] ὑπεθέμεθα ὠνεῖσθαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 3.7; δεῖ ὑποτίθεσθαι κατ᾽ εὐχήν, μηδὲν μέντοι ἀδύνατον 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1265a17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; make up one's mind, adopt as a policy, παρὰ τὸ δίκαιον τὸ ξυμφέρον λέγειν ὑπέθεσθε [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.90; τοῦθ᾽ ὑπέθετο, δεινότατον πρᾶγμα, οἶμαι, ὅπως ἐν ἐκείνῳ εἴη.. φάναι 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.39; ἕνα τοῦτον ὑποθέμενος τὸν σκοπόν, ἅπαντας ἡμᾶς ἀγορεύειν κακῶς 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pisc.” 7; πρὶν τὴν ἀρχὴν ὀρθῶς ὑποθέσθαι, μάταιον ἡγοῦμαι περὶ τῆς τελευτῆς ὁντινοῦν ποιεῖσθαι λόγον 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, ὁ ὑποτεθεὶς σκοπός [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1144a24. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III.2 propose to oneself as a subject of discussion or argument, ἀπ᾽ ἐμαυτοῦ ἄρξωμαι καὶ τῆς ἐμαυτοῦ ὑποθέσεως, περὶ τοῦ ἑνὸς αὐτοῦ ὑποθέμενος, εἴτε ἕν ἐστιν εἴτε μή [ἕν], τί χρὴ συμβαίνει; [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 137b, compare “Ti.” 26a; ἵνα μὴ δοκῶ περὶ τὰ μέρη διατρίβειν, ὑπὲρ ὅλων τῶν πραγμάτων ὑποθέμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.51, compare 12.119; ὥσπερ ὑπεθέμην 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Char.Prooem.” 5; περὶ ἀέρος εἰπόντες, ὥσπερ ὑπεθέμεθα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 340a23, compare “Rh.” 1432b5, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.37, 2.102; ὑποθησόμεθα ταύτης ἀρχὴν τῆς βύβλου τὴν πρώτην διάβασιν ἐξ Ἰταλίας Ῥωμαίων 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.5.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, οἱ ὑποτεθέντες λόγοι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 812a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV middle, assume as a preliminary, ταύτην μὲν δὴ πυρὸς ἀρχὴν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων σωμάτων ὑποτιθέμεθα [[ [prev. author] “Ti.” 53d; ὑποθέμενος ἑκάστοτε λόγον.., ἃ μὲν ἄν μοι δοκῇ τούτῳ συμφωνεῖν, τίθημι ὡς ἀληθῆ ὄντα [prev. author] “Phd.” 100a; οἱ περὶ τὰς γεωμετρίας.. ὑποθέμενοι.. τὰ σχήματα,.. ποιησάμενοι ὑποθέσεις αὐτά [prev. author] “R.” 510c; ὑπόθεσιν [prev. author] “Phd.” 101d; ὃ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ὑπετιθέμεθα [prev. author] “Chrm.” 171d; ἐὰν ὡς ὂν ὑποθῇ ὃ ὑπετίθεσο [prev. author] “Prm.” 136c; ὑ. περί τινος ὡς ὄντος [prev. work] 136b, compare 137b, “Plt.” 284c; ὑ. ὡς τούτου οὕτως ἔχοντος [prev. author] “R.” 437a ] Refs]: with accusative et infinitive, assume or suppose that.., [[ [prev. author] “Phd.” 100b, “Prt.” 339d: without ] Refs]infinitive, [τὴν ἀρετὴν] διδακτὸν ὑ. assume it to be teachable,[[ [prev. work] 361b; τἀναντία οἷς ὑπεθέμην [prev. author] “Tht.” 165d ] Refs]; ὥσπερ ὑπέθου as you began by requiring, [[ [prev. author] “R.” 346b (referring to 336d):] Refs] —passive, especially in aorist ὑπετέθην compare (ὑπόκειμαι [[ 11.2), [prev. author] “Ti.” 48e, 61d; τὰ ὑποτεθέντα [prev. author] “Prm.” 136b ] Refs]; τῶν καλῶν τι ἡ σωφροσύνη ὑπετέθη was assumed to be.., [[ [prev. author] “Chrm.” 160d (referring to 159c); τοῦτο δ᾽ ἀδύνατον, ὥστε ψεῦδος τὸ ὑποτεθέν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Priora” 61a31 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; εἰ τοῦτό τις ὑποτεθείη γινώσκειν if it were assumed that one knew this, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.17S. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__IV.2 later, assume, suppose, estimate, παρέσομαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ὡς ὑποτίθεμαι, τῇ ιζ [[ “PCair.Zen.” 247.4 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ὑποτιθεμένου τοῦ ποδὸς δραχμῆς the foot being reckoned at one drachma, [[ “Supp.epigram” 4.446.14 (Didyma, 3rd-2nd c.BC),compare “PCair.Zen.” 15r. 34 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τὸν χιλιάρουρον (i.e. ἀμπελῶνα) ὑποτιθέμεθα ἐπὶ τὸ ἔλαττον we assess at the reduced sum, [[[prev. work] 361.9 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; νεώτερον αὐτὸν ὑ. put him down as younger, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.6 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; ταῦτα τὸν Ὅμηρον ὡς συστρατιώτην ἔφη εἰρηκέναι καὶ οὐχ ὡς ὑποτιθέμενον not as a composer of fiction, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Heroicus” 4.4. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__V active, establish as a preliminary, premise, ταῦθ᾽ ὑποθεὶς ἐπεῖπεν ὡς.. [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.157 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τοῦθ᾽ ὑποθέντες ἀκούετε τῇ γνώμῃ, τί ἄν, εἴ τις ἔπασχε ταῦθ᾽ ὑμῶν, ἐποίει after deciding in your own minds, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.108; ῥυθμοὺς καὶ σχῆμα ἐλευθέριον ὑποθεῖσαι μέλος ἢ λόγον ἐναντίον ἀποδοῦναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 669c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__V.2 represent as ὑποκείμενον (see. ὑπόκειμαι [[ 11.8), εἰ μή τις ἑτέραν ὑποθήσει τοῖς ἐναντίοις φύσιν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 189a28; [ἀρχὴν] ἄν τε μίαν ἄν τε πλείους [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 988a24. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__VI couch, present, τὴν σάρισαν [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 27.3. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__VII put down as a deposit or stake, pawn, pledge, mortgage, τοῦτο τὸ ἐνέχυρον [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.136 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν οἰκίαν, τὴν οὐσίαν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 21.2, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 28.17, 49.12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑπέθεσαν αὐτῷ τοῦ ταλάντου τὰς προσόδους mortgaged their revenues for the talent, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.104; τῷ πατρὶ τἀνδράποδα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.25; δραχμὴν ὑπόθες 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 73.2; ὑποθέμενοι χρυσίον “IG” 12.313.177 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὴν οἰκίαν πωλοῦντα καὶ ὑποτιθέντα selling and mortgaging, i.e. having full ownership of, the house, [[ “PCair.Zen.” 588.1, compare 9 (3rd c.BC), “PRyl.” 162.28 (2nd c.AD);compare ὑποθήκη 11 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]:—middle, of the mortgagee, lend money on pledge, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 28.18; ὑποθέσθαι τὰ σκεύη τῆς νεώς [prev. author] 50.55 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:— but the middle is used for the active in later writers, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 6:] Refs 1st c.AD+] — for the passive, ὑπόκειμαι is used, except in aorist 1, πόρους (revenues) ὑποκεῖσθαι αὐτοῖς τούς τε ὑποτεθέντας εἰς τὸ βουλευτήριον.. [[ “OGI” 46.10 (Halic., 3rd c.BC),compare “AJP” 56.375 (Colophon, 4th c.BC, _middle_ and _passive_)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; compare τίθημι.
__VII.2 stake, hazard, venture, εἰς οἷον κίνδυνον ἔρχῃ ὑποθήσων τὴν ψυχήν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 313a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸν ἴδιον κίνδυνον ὑποθείς at his own risk, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.252; also ἑαυτὸν ἔγγυον ὑποθείς 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Crassus” 7; τὴν ψυχὴν ταῖς τύχαις 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Dem.Enc.” 41; τὰ σὰ τοῖς ἐκτός 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.2.12; τὸν τράχηλον [prev. work] 4.1.77 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἑαυτὸν τῷ νόμῳ, i. e. risked the penalties of the law, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “de gymnastica” 24; οὐδὲ αὑτοὺς ταύταις ὑποθήσομεν ταῖς αἰτίαις 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 3.112a ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; νομίμοις ποιναῖς ὑποθεῖναι [αὐτούς] [[ “PMasp.” 24.50 (6th c.AD)] Refs 6th c.AD+]; ἑαυτὸν [ὀργῇ] [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Themistocles” 24; τοῖς κινδύνοις σφᾶς αὐτούς 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor 1.467 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
