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ὑπόψιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπόψιος ὑπόψιον

Structure: ὑποψι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: u(po/yomai

Sense

  1. viewed from beneath, viewed with suspicion

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ τὴν πόλιν ὅλην συνταράξασ καὶ εἰσ τοὺσ ἐσχάτουσ κινδύνουσ καταστήσασ ἐξηλέγχθη, ὑμεῖσ δὲ ἀπηλλάγητε μεγάλων φόβων καὶ τῶν εἰσ ἀλλήλουσ ὑποψιῶν. (Andocides, Speeches, 113:4)
  • τοῦτο καταμαθόντεσ οἱ πρεσβύτατοι τῶν Ῥωμαίων συστραφέντεσ ἔπειθον ἰδίᾳ τε καὶ ἐν κοινῷ τοὺσ στασιωδεστάτουσ τῶν δημοτικῶν παύσασθαι τῶν εἰσ τοὺσ πατρικίουσ ὑποψιῶν τε καὶ κατηγοριῶν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 15 1:1)
  • τὸ μὲν πρᾶγμα, ὦ δημόται, μέγα καὶ πολλῶν μεστὸν ὑποψιῶν ἀτόπων· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 88 2:1)
  • καίπερ γὰρ πρὸσ πᾶσαν ἀσέβειαν ἐκλελυσσηκότεσ, ὅμωσ τοὺσ θύειν ἐθέλοντασ εἰσηφίεσαν, μεθ’ ὑποψιῶν μὲν καὶ φυλακῆσ τοὺσ ἐπιχωρίουσ, διερευνώμενοι δὲ τοὺσ ξένουσ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 19:1)

Synonyms

  1. viewed from beneath

    • ὕποπτος (looked at from beneath, viewed with suspicion or jealousy, suspected)

Related

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

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