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ὑφίστημι,
Ionic dialect ὑπίστημι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.16, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future ὑποστήσω [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 983: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist ὑπέστησα, Doric dialect ὑπέστᾱσα [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—Causal, place or set under, ὑποστήσαντες [τῷ χαλκηΐῳ] τρεῖς κολοσσούς having set them under it, to support it, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.152; ὑ. προθύρῳ κίονας 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.1: _metaphorically_, χώραν ὑπέστᾱσε ξένοις κίονα [prev. work] 8.26: without _dative_, τρεῖς σταυροὺς ὑπίστησι] Refs 5th c.BC+] plants three piles in the lake to support a house, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.16; ὑ. κλῶνας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 10.7; ἐρείσματα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 625a12, etc.: _metaphorically_, γνώμας ὑποστήσας σοφάς] Refs 5th c.BC+] having laid them as a foundation, having begun with them, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1091; ὑ. δόλον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus [same place] ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; see below [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 post secretly or in ambush, τοὺς δορυφόρους [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.92. ; ταξάρχους 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.1.26. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 bring to a halt, hold up, ὑποστήσαντες (i.e. τοὺς στρατιώτας) ἐν τῷ στενῷ οἱ στρατηγοί [[ [prev. author] “An.” 4.1.14 ] Refs] (variant{ὑποστάντες}, see below [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 111)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑπέστησε τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ναῦν ἀντίπρῳρον τοῖς πολεμίοις stationed it, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.50.6. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __4 give substance to, cause to subsist, 'hypostatize', [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.7.40, +others] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; treat as subsisting, ὁ νοῦς κατὰ τὸ νοεῖν ὑφιστὰς τὸ ὄν [[ [prev. author] 5.1.4; ὑφίστησι μὲν τὸ ὅλον, ὑφίσταται δὲ τὰ μέρη 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 271, compare 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 28. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__II middle also in causal sense, mostly future and aorist 1, lay down, premise, εἰ μή τι πιστὸν τῷδ᾽ ὑποστήσει στόλῳ [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 461; ἀρχὰς ψευδεῖς ὑποστήσασθαι 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.48.9; ἐπειδὰν ὑποθέσεις εὐπεριλήπτους.. ὑποστήσωνται [prev. author] 7.7.6. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.2 substitute one thing for another, τὸν τρόπον τῇ τοῦ Πέρσου ἀλαζονείᾳ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 9.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 conceive, suppose, with accusative et infinitive, τῷ -στησαμένῳ τοὺς θεοὺς.. εἶναι [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “D.” 1.17; τοὺς θεοὺς ὑφίστανται τὸν κόσμον διοικεῖν 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.11, cf. Heraclitus Paradoxographus “de incredibilibus - Mythographi Graeci” 13 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; but the infinitive is mostly omitted, ἄφθαρτον ὑποστησάμενοι τὸν κόσμον [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.6, compare 12, 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 2.86 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]:—passive, τοὺς θεούς, ἂν φρονοῦντες -σταθῶσιν [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “D.” 1.7. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II.4 set before onself as a model, τινα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.113. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B passive, with aorist 2 and perfect active [[(8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses only _aorist_ 2)] Refs 8th c.BC+]:— stand under as a support, ὑπεστᾶσι κολοσσοὶ.. τῇ αὐλῇ [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.153; τοὺς σταυροὺς τοὺς ὑπεστεῶτας τοῖσι ἰκρίοισι [prev. author] 5.16; τὸ ὑφεστὸς τῷ βάρει 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Incessu Animalium” 708b31 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; see above [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 1.1. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.2 sink, settle, τὸ ὑπιστάμενον the milk, opposed to τὸ ἐπιστάμενον (the cream), [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to τὸ ἐπιπολάζον, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Caelo” 311a17 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of a sediment, deposit, ἐν οὔρῳ ψαμμώδεα ὑφίσταται [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 4.79, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 357b3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἐπιπλεῖν, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.15.4 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the sun, set, [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 48 (conjecture). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II place oneself under an engagement, promise to do, followed by future infinitive, ὅσσ᾽ Ἀχιλῆϊ.. ὑπέστημεν δώσειν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.195, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.94; θύσειν ὑπέστης παῖδα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 360 (troch.), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 716 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 751d ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; by aorist infinitive, ὑφεστακώς μοι ἦν ὁ Διόδωρος φιλάνθρωπον δοῦναι [[ “BGU” 1141.45 (1st c.BC)] Refs 1st c.BC+]; by present infinitive, ὑπέστησαν ποιέειν ταῦτα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.128; ὑ. τὴν τάξιν ἔχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.3.35: the ] Refs 5th c.BC+]infinitive is sometimes omitted, ὡς.. ὑπέστην καὶ κατένευσα (i.e. ἔσεσθαι) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.267: _absolutely_, ἢ ἔπος ἠέ τι ἔργον ὑποστὰς ἐξετέλεσσε ] Refs 8th c.BC+]after promise given, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.99, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.457, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.127, 9.34, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.19, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.1.26 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὤσπερ ὑπέστη as he promised, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.39, 8.29: with _dative_ _person_, ὤς οἱ ὑπέστην] Refs 5th c.BC+] as I promised him, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.75: sometimes with _accusative_ of object (but an _infinitive_ may be supplied), πάντα τελευτήσεις ὅσ᾽ ὑπέστης.. Πριάμῳ 13.375; τρίποδας φέρον, οὕς οἱ ὑπέστη 19.243, compare 11.244; ἐκτελέουσιν ὑπόσχεσιν ἥνπερ ὑπέσταν 2.286, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.483 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἦ ῥ᾽ ἅλιον τὸν μῦθον ὑπέστημεν.., ἀπονέεσθαι vain was the promise we made.., that he would return, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.715. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.II.2 submit, with dative, τινι [[ 9.160: with ] Refs]aorist infinitive, ὑ. θανεῖν, κατθανεῖν, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 706, “Ion” 1415. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.3 with accusative of things, submit to, consent to, ὁ τὸ ἐλάχιστον ὑπιστάμενος who offers to take the least, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.196 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑ. τὸν πλοῦν undertake it unwillingly, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.28; ὑ. τὸν κίνδυνον [prev. author] 2.61, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 9.7, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.59, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.28; ἀγῶνας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.57, “OGI” 763.9 (Milet., 2nd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόνον [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 189; βέλος [prev. author] “HF” 1350; ἔρωτα [prev. author] “Tr.” 415; ἀπεχθείας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Themistocles” 3; πόλεμον 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.6.7, 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.45 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πράγματα[[ [prev. work] 61; τὴν πρᾶξιν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pelopidas” 8; τὸν ἆθλον 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Rh.Pr.” 24 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]: also with infinitive, consent, bring oneself to, οὔ τίς με.. ὑπέστη σαῶσαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.273; πᾶν ἂν ὑποστὰς εἰπεῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.114; ὑ. ἐξαπατᾶν τινα [prev. author] 19.69 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: absolutely, submit patiently, [[ [prev. author] “Prooem.” 5.1 ] Refs]; ὑφίστασθαι συμβαίνει τὸν κερατοειδῆ the cornea yields (to pressure), [[ 6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 7.36. ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
__B.II.3.b undertake an office, τὴν ἀρχήν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.1.19, 31; γυμνασιαρχίαν “IG” 5(1).535.12 (from Sparta), compare “OGI” 494.6 (Milet., 2nd c.AD)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑφέστη (sic) τὴν στρατηγίαν [[ “SIG” 876.6 (Smyrna, 2nd-3rd c.AD),compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Camillus” 37: also ἐθελοντὴν ὑποστῆναι τριήραρχον 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 29.7; χορηγὸς ὑπέστην 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.69 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐμὲ τοῦ λόγου διάδοχον.. ὑποστάντα Pl[[ “Phlb.” 19a; poetry, ὑπέστης αἵματος δέκτωρ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 204: _metaphorically_, ψυχὴν Τέλητος ὑπέστης,] Refs 4th c.BC+] i. e. you promised to be as brave as T., [[ 5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 46 (_anapaest meter_). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.3.c make an offer in a public auction, ἔδοξεν.. μοι μηθὲν ὑποστῆναι I decided to make no bid, commit myself to nothing, [[ “PCair.Zen.” 371.9 (3rd c.BC),compare “PMich.Zen.” 60.10 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; δώδεκα ἀρταβῶν ὑπέστη he undertook (to supply the produce) of [[ 12 artabae, [prev. work] 36.5 (3rd c.BC),compare “PCair.Zen.” 199.4 (3rd c.BC), “PEleph.” 21.16 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ὑφίστατο.. τάξεσθαι ἑκάστου πήχεως [x] PTheb. Bank [[ 1.2 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; οὐ δυνόμενος (={-άμενος}) οὐκέτι ὑποστῆναι τὴν γεωργίαν [[ “Sammelb.” 7468.11 (3rd c.AD). ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__B.II.3.d ὑπέστη πολλὰς ἀπορίας laid himself open to many doubts, [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.6.12. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__B.III lie concealed or in ambush, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.91, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 1114, variant in 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.1.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; see above [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 1.2, ὑφίημι 1.3, ὑφεῖσα. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.IV resist, withstand, with dative, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 87 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.2.11, “HG” 7.5.12: ξυμφοραῖς ταῖς μεγίσταις ὑ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.61, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1349: with _accusative_, [prev. author] “Cyc.” 200, “Rh.” 375 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.144, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 9.35.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, stand one's ground, face the enemy, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1470, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.54, 8.68, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.80.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to φεύγω, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.31, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demetrius” 25 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑποστᾰθείς, opposed to φεύγων, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 315 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of clouds, opposed to προωθεῖσθαι, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 940b36. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.IV.2 subsist, exist [[compare (ὑπόστασις 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus III), κατ᾽ ἰδίαν ὑφεστώς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 188; ὑφέστηκε τό τε ὁρᾶν ἡμᾶς καὶ ἀκούειν ὥσπερ τὸ ἀλγεῖν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 36; τὸ ὑφεστηκὸς τέλος [prev. author] “Sent.” 22, compare 2nd c.AD: Diogenes Oenoandensis Epicureus 5, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.7.6; ἐκ τοῦ μηκέτ᾽ ὄντος μηδ᾽ ὑφεστῶτος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.829c, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Par.” 27 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ παρῳχημένον τοῦ χρόνου καὶ τὸ μέλλον οὐχ ὑπάρχειν ἀλλ᾽ ὑφεστηκέναι φησί (i.e. Χρύσιππος) [[ “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 2.165] Refs]; the Stoic distinction between τὸ ὄν and τὸ ὑφεστός is pettifogging accusative to [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 10.155 (= “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 2.115); τὰ ὑφεστῶτα ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]business in hand, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.14.5. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__B.IV.2.b ὑφεστηκότος παρὰ τῷ ταμίᾳ κατ᾽ ἰδίαν λόγου the treasurer having a special bank-account, [[ “IG” 12(9).236.64 (Eretria, 2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τὸ ἥμισσυ ἀναπεμπόντω ἐπὶ τὰν δαμοσίαν τράπεζαν ἐς τὸν ὑφεστᾱκότα τᾶς θεοῦ λόγον [[ “Arch.f.Religionswiss.” 10.211 (Cos, 2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ὑποστησαμένους λόγον πόλεως τῶν.. χρημάτων ἐγγράφεσθαι τὸ διδόμενον they shall open a municipal account (entitled) 'the.. fund' and place this gift to its credit, [[ “SIG” 577.13 (Milet., 3rd-2nd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__B.V ἡ κοιλία ὑφίσταται the bowels are costive, literal, are obstructed or stopped, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.134e. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__B.VI arise within, τῷ πλήθει τοιοῦτον ὑπέστη δέος [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 11.30.2 codices (παρέστη is probably conjecture). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
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