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ὑποβολή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑποβολή

Structure: ὑποβολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: u(poba/llw

Sense

  1. a throwing or laying under
  2. a substitution by stealth, of supposititious children
  3. a suggesting, admonition
  4. the subject-matter

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εὐθὺσ οὖν τίσ οὐκ ἂν εἴποι πρὸσ τὴν Ῥωμύλου γένεσιν καὶ σωτηρίαν καί, τροφὴν καὶ αὔξησιν τὴν μὲν Τύχην ὑποβολὰσ κατατεθεῖσθαι τὴν δ’ Ἀρετὴν ἐξῳκοδομηκέναι; (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 83)
  • ἂν εἴποι πρὸσ τὴν Ῥωμύλου γένεσιν καὶ σωτηρίαν καὶ τροφὴν καὶ αὔξησιν τὴν μὲν Τύχην ὑποβολὰσ κατατεθεῖσθαι τὴν δ’ Ἀρετὴν ἐξῳκοδομηκέναι; (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 8 1:1)
  • τῶν γὰρ τόπων τῶν περὶ τὸν λόφον ὑπαρχόντων ψιλῶν μέν, πολλὰσ δὲ καὶ παντοδαπὰσ ἐχόντων περικλάσεισ κοιλότητασ, ἐξέπεμψε τῆσ νυκτὸσ εἰσ τὰσ ἐπιτηδειοτάτασ ὑποβολὰσ ἀνὰ διακοσίουσ καὶ τριακοσίουσ, πεντακοσίουσ μὲν ἱππεῖσ, ψιλοὺσ δὲ καὶ πεζοὺσ τοὺσ πάντασ εἰσ πεντακισχιλίουσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 3, chapter 104 4:1)
  • τὰσ μὲν οὖν τῶν περιστάσεων ὑποβολὰσ εὐχερὲσ καὶ διὰ τῶν προειρημένων καὶ διὰ τῶν μετὰ ταῦτα ῥηθησομένων καταμαθεῖν, τὰσ δὲ τῶν φίλων οὐκ ἄξιον παραλιπεῖν, ἄλλωσ τε καὶ διὰ μιᾶσ γνώμησ ἱκανὴν τοῦ πράγματοσ ἔμφασιν ἐξὸν λαβεῖν. (Polybius, Histories, book 9, chapter 24 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a throwing or laying under

  2. a suggesting

  3. the subject-matter

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

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