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ὑποβολιμαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑποβολιμαῖος ὑποβολιμαῖη ὑποβολιμαῖον

Structure: ὑποβολιμαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: u(pobolh/ I. 2

Sense

  1. substituted by stealth, supposititious

Declension

First/Second 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

  • νέουσ ἀγόμενοι, σεσηρότεσ ὅθ’ οἱ τρέφοντεσ γελῶσι, καὶ ψυχῆσ ὑποβολιμαῖα καὶ νόθα μέρη βίου, πρὸσ δὲ τὸ τῶν πλουσίων νεῦμα ζῶντεσ, τῇ τύχῃ μὲν ἐλεύθεροι, τῇ προαιρέσει δὲ δοῦλοι· (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 17 13:2)
  • καθάπερ οἶμαι τῶν τὰ ὑποβολιμαῖα παιδάρια θρεψάντων χαλεπὸν ὕστερον ἀφελέσθαι τἀληθῆ λέγοντα ἅ γε ἐν ἀρχῇ, εἴ τισ αὐτοῖσ ἔφρασεν, οὐκ ἄν ποτε ἀνείλοντο. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 4:2)
  • ἀποκτεῖναι δὲ οὐδένα κω λέγουσι τὸν ἑωυτοῦ πατέρα οὐδὲ μητέρα, ἀλλὰ ὁκόσα ἤδη τοιαῦτα ἐγένετο, πᾶσαν ἀνάγκην φασὶ ἀναζητεόμενα ταῦτα ἀνευρεθῆναι ἤτοι ὑποβολιμαῖα ἐόντα ἢ μοιχίδια· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 137 3:1)

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

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