Sense

1. to place under, to place under one's feet
2. to place under as a foundation or beginning, to be laid down, assumed, to lay down as a principle, take for granted, assume, to assume or suppose that . .
3. to hold out under, present, to suggest, to suggest, hint, to suggest, advise or counsel
4. to advise, admonish, to advise, to do
5. to propose, to propose to oneself
6. to put down as a deposit or stake, to pawn, pledge, mortgage, to lend, on pledge
7. to stake, hazard, venture

Examples

• τούτου δὲ πολιτικώτερον, μὴ μόνον ἐμφανῶσ μηδὲ δημοσίᾳ ὀνειδίζων ἄνευ δηγμοῦ σφόδρα κολούοντοσ καὶ ταπεινοῦντοσ, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον ἰδίᾳ τοῖσ εὖ πεφυκόσι πρὸσ πολιτείαν ὑποτιθέμενοσ καὶ συνεισηγούμενοσ εὐμενῶσ λόγουσ τε χρηστοὺσ; (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 231)
• καὶ ἄλλοσ δὲ τίσ φησι τῷ Σαρδαναπάλλῳ παραπλήσιοσ, ὑποτιθέμενοσ καὶ οὗτοσ τοῖσ μὴ σωφρονοῦσι τοιάδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 14 3:4)
• ὁ γοῦν ἐπὶ πάντων ἐγὼ τῶν ἐμαυτοῦ θεωρημάτων κανόνασ ὑποτιθέμενοσ οὔτε πρότερον ὤκνησα τὰ δοκοῦντά μοι φέρειν ἐσ μέσον οὔτε νῦν ἀποτρέψομαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 35 1:1)
• Κλέαρχοσ δ’ ὁ Σολεὺσ ἐν τῷ ἐπιγραφομένῳ Γεργιθίῳ καὶ πόθεν ἡ ἀρχὴ τοῦ ὀνόματοσ τῶν κολάκων παρῆλθε διηγεῖται καὶ αὐτὸν τὸν Γεργίθιον ὑποτιθέμενοσ, ἀφ’ οὗ τὸ βιβλίον ἔχει τὴν ἐπιγραφήν , ἕνα γεγονότα τῶν Ἀλεξάνδρου κολάκων, διηγεῖται δὲ οὕτωσ, τὴν κολακείαν ταπεινὰ ποιεῖν τὰ ἤθη τῶν κολάκων καταφρονητικῶν ὄντων τῶν περὶ αὐτούσ, σημεῖον δὲ τὸ πᾶν ὑπομένειν εἰδότασ οἱᾶ τολμῶσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 671)
• τὴν δὲ γῆν ἴσωσ ἂν ἕτεροσ φανείη ψυχρότητοσ αἰτίαν ὑποτιθέμενοσ. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 9 1:1)

Similar forms

• ὑποτίθης (1)
• ὑποτίθησιν (1)
• ὑποτίθησι (1)

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