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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

  • εἶτα ὁ μὲν ἔπινεν, ἐγὼ δὲ αὐτίκα μάλα ἐκτάδην ἐκείμην ὑποβολιμαῖοσ ἀντ̓ ἐκείνου νεκρόσ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 4:1)
  • εἰ δέ γε δοῦλοσ ἢ ὑποβολιμαῖοσ τὰ μὴ προσήκοντ’ ἀπώλλυε καὶ ἐλυμαίνετο, Ἡράκλεισ ὅσῳ μᾶλλον δεινὸν καὶ ὀργῆσ ἄξιον πάντεσ ἂν ἔφησαν εἶναι. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 36:1)
  • καίτοι οὕτωσ ὑποβολιμαῖοσ ἂν εἰήσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 22:5)
  • οἱο͂ν, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, εἴ τισ ὑποβολιμαῖοσ τραφείη ἐν πολλοῖσ μὲν χρήμασι, πολλῷ δὲ καὶ μεγάλῳ γένει καὶ κόλαξι πολλοῖσ, ἀνὴρ δὲ γενόμενοσ αἴσθοιτο ὅτι οὐ τούτων ἐστὶ τῶν φασκόντων γονέων, τοὺσ δὲ τῷ ὄντι γεννήσαντασ μὴ εὑρ́οι, τοῦτον ἔχεισ μαντεύσασθαι πῶσ ἂν διατεθείη πρόσ τε τοὺσ κόλακασ καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ ὑποβαλομένουσ ἐν ἐκείνῳ τε τῷ χρόνῳ ᾧ οὐκ ᾔδει τὰ περὶ τῆσ ὑποβολῆσ, καὶ ἐν ᾧ αὖ ᾔδει; (Plato, Republic, book 7 471:1)

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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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