Sense

1. to promise or engage, to take upon oneself, to undertake to do, to promise
2. to promise, make promises
3. to profess that, profess, to profess

Examples

• ὑπισχνοῦμαι δή σοι τὴν Ἑλένην παραδώσειν γυναῖκα, καὶ ἀκολουθήσειν γέ σοι αὐτὴν καὶ ἀφίξεσθαι παρ’ ὑμᾶσ εἰσ τὴν Ἴλιον· (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 16:8)
• Εἰ δέ τισ ἐρεῖ τῶν πρὸσ ἅπαντα φιλονεικούντων, ὅτι τοῦτον ἴσωσ ἔγραψε τὸν λόγον ταῖσ Ἀριστοτέλουσ ἐντετευχὼσ τέχναισ, τὸν κράτιστον ἁπάντων τῶν λόγων, πολλὰ πρὸσ αὐτὸν εἰπεῖν ἔχων, ἵνα μὴ μακρότεροσ τοῦ δέοντοσ ὁ λόγοσ γένηταί μοι, καὶ τοῦτον ἐπιδείξειν ὑπισχνοῦμαι τὸν ἀγῶνα πρὸ τῶν Ἀριστοτέλουσ τεχνῶν ἐπιτετελεσμένον αὐτῷ χρησάμενοσ τῷ φιλοσόφῳ μάρτυρι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 12 1:3)
• ἄν με ἀφῇσ ἀποδρᾶναι, χίλιά σοι τάλαντα χρυσίου ἐπισήμου δώσειν ὑπισχνοῦμαι τήμερον. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 9:2)
• εἰ δὲ ἀπάξεισ με, ὑπισχνοῦμαί σοι καὶ ἄλλον παῤ αὐτοῦ κριὸν τυθήσεσθαι λύτρα ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 4:12)
• "ὦ βασιλεῦ, ὑπισχνοῦμαι δείξειν ὁδὸν οὐ πολλὴν ἐκ Περσῶν εἰσ Αἴγυπτον. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 5:7)

Similar forms

• ὑπισχνεόμενος (1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.