Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὕπτιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὕπτιος ὕπτιη ὕπτιον

Structure: ὑπτι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: 라틴어 sub에서 supinus가 파생되었듯이, u(po/에서 파생되었음.

Sense

  1. laid back, laid on one's back, backwards, falling backwards
  2. with the under side uppermost, the hollow of, upturned, with the hollow uppermost, with the concave side uppermost, with the bottom uppermost, on the back
  3. sloping evenly

Examples

  • Κρεμάσαι χρὴ τὸν ἄνθρωπον τῶν ποδῶν πρὸσ μεσόδμην δεσμῷ δυνατῷ μὲν, μαλθακῷ δὲ καὶ πλάτοσ ἔχοντι‧ τοὺσ δὲ πόδασ διέχειν χρὴ, ὅσον τέσσαρασ δακτύλουσ ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων, ἢ καὶ ἔλασσον‧ χρὴ δὲ καὶ ἐπάνωθεν τῶν ἐπιγουνίδων προσπεριβεβλῆσθαι πλαῖ ἱμάντι καὶ μαλθακῷ, ἀνατείνοντι ἐσ τὴν μεσόδμην‧ τὸ δὲ σκέλοσ τὸ σιναρὸν ἐντετάσθαι χρὴ ὡσ δύο δακτύλουσ μᾶλλον τοῦ ἑτέρου‧ ἀπὸ δὲ τῆσ γῆσ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀπεχέτω ὡσ δύο πήχεασ, ἢ ὀλίγῳ πλέον, ἢ ἔλασσον‧ τὰσ δὲ χεῖρασ παρατεταμένασ παρὰ τὰσ πλευρὰσ προσδεδεμένοσ ἔστω μαλθακῷ τινι‧ πάντα δὲ ταῦτα ὑπτίῳ κατακειμένῳ κατασκευασθήτω, ὡσ ὅτι ἐλάχιστον χρόνον κρέμηται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 70.2)
  • ἐν δὲ τῇ χώρᾳ τῇ Ὀρχομενίων, ἐν ἀριστερᾷ τῆσ ὁδοῦ τῆσ ἀπὸ Ἀγχισιῶν, ἐν ὑπτίῳ τοῦ ὄρουσ τὸ ἱερόν ἐστι τῆσ Ὑμνίασ Ἀρτέμιδοσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 13 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. sloping evenly

Related

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

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