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ὑπόγειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπόγειος ὑπόγειη ὑπόγειον

Structure: ὑπογει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: gh=

Sense

  1. under the earth, subterraneous

Examples

  • "τὸ ὕδνον ὃ καλοῦσί τινεσ γεράνειον καὶ εἴ τι ἄλλο ὑπόγειον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52111)
  • οἱ δὲ καὶ ὅλωσ φασί, τοῦ βουλεύματοσ ἀπορρήτου καὶ ἀφανοῦσ ὄντοσ, ὑπόγειον οὐκ ἀλόγωσ τῷ θεῷ βωμὸν γενέσθαι < καὶ> κεκρυμμένον. (Plutarch, chapter 14 4:1)
  • ὑπόγειον φορὰν ἐνεχθέντα ὅμοια μὲν ἀνατέλλει τοῖσ χρώμασιν, ἴσα δὲ τοῖσ μεγέθεσι καὶ κατὰ τόπουσ καὶ κατὰ χρόνουσ τοὺσ αὐτούσ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, 10:1)
  • ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺσ τῶν Σύρων Ἄδαδοσ φεύγων μετά τινων πιστοτάτων οἰκετῶν εἰσ ὑπόγειον οἶκον ἐκρύβη. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 476:3)

Synonyms

  1. under the earth

Related

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

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