A.“ὑπίσχετο” Il.23.195, “ὑπίσχεο” 20.84, “ὑπίσχοντο” Hdt.7.168; but Hdt. also has “ὑπισχνέετο” 9.109 (v.l. for -έεται); “ὑπισχνεύμενος” 2.152; “ὑπισχνοῦμαι” S.Ichn.2; imper. “ὑπισχνοῦ” Ar.V.750 (anap.): fut. “ὑποσχήσομαι” D.19.324: aor. “ὑπεσχόμην” Il.9.263, etc.: pf. “ὑπέσχημαι” Th.8.48, X.Oec.3.1, D. 7.33, etc.: plpt. “ὑπέσχητο” Id.19.121:—Act. “ὑπισχνέω” Aesop.205.— collat. form of ὑπέχομαι, which supplies several of its tenses, and even in pres. is used = ὑπισχνέομαι, App.Mith.16,20, PBrem.36.10, PRyl.96.9, PGiss.5.10 (all ii A. D.), etc. (ὑπίσχομαι was replaced by ὑπισχνέομαι under the influence of the opposite ἀρνέομαι):—take upon oneself, i. e. undertake to do, “δείδω μὴ οὔ τίς τοι ὑπός χηται τόδε ἔργον” Il.10.39; “τροφαῖσι βασιλικαῖσι καὶ παιδεύμασιν ἅπανθ᾽ ὑπισχνεῖθ᾽ ὡς ἀπὸ σπλάγχνων ἑῶν” Ezek.Exag.38 (s.v.l.): more freq., promise, “ὑποσχέσθαι δ᾽ ἑκατόμβας” Il.6.115, cf. 23.195; “ὅσσα τοι . . ὑπέσχετο δῶρα” 9.263; “βουλέων, ἅς τέ μοι αὐτὸς ὑ.” 12.236, cf. 20.84; “ὑ. δαπάνην τῇ στρατιῇ” Hdt.5.30; [“πόλεσιν] ὀλιγαρχίαν” Th.8.48, etc.: with a thing as subject, “τῆς τῶν ὀδόντων ἀναφυήσεως ὑπισχνουμένης τὴν τῶν στερεμνιωτέρων διαίρεσιν καὶ λείωσιν” Sor.1.116; τὰ στύφειν ὑπισχνούμενα ib.120.
b. c. inf. fut., “ὑπό τ᾽ ἔσχετο—καὶ κατένευσε—δωσέμεναι” Il.13.368, cf. Od.4.6; ὑ.—καὶ κατένευσεν—Ἴλιον ἐκπέρσαντ᾽ . . ἀπονέεσθαι (for this Verb has a fut. sense) Il.2.112, 9.19; “ὑ. Ἑλένην . . δωσέμεν Ἀτρεΐδῃσιν ἄγειν” 22.114; “ὑ. δυοκαίδεκα βοῦς . . ἱερευσέμεν” 6.93; so in Trag. and Att., S.Ph.615, E.Tr.930, Pl.Phdr. 235d, etc.; also ὑ. ἦ μὴν . . , c. inf. fut., X.Cyr.6.2.3: c. acc. et inf. fut., “ἐγὼ δέ τοι αὐτὸν ὑπίσχομαι . . τείσειν” Od.8.347, cf. A.Eu.804.
c. c. inf. aor., only f.l., as in X.An.1.2.2, 2.3.19 (where the variants παύσεσθαι, βουλεύσεσθαι are now accepted), while in Cyr.2.2.12, 6.1.21, An.7.2.24 he uses inf. fut.; in D.42.17, for ἀποφαίνειν Cobet restores ἀποφανεῖν.
d. freq. with a neut. Adj., “μεγάλα ὑ.” Hdt. 2.152, al.: without acc., ὑπίσχεται ἀνδρὶ ἑκάστῳ she makes promises to each man, Od.2.91; “ὑπισχνέεται καὶ ὤμοσε” Hdt.9.109, cf. 5.51; “ἠρώτα αὐτὴν εἰ ἐθελήσει διακονῆσαί οἱ, καὶ ἣ ὑπέσχετο τάχιστα” Antipho 1.16; “ὑποσχόμενος . . , ἃ ὑπεδέζατο οὐκ ἐπετέλει” Th.2.95.
2. c. inf. pres., profess that one is, profess to be, “ὑ. οἷός τε εἶναι” Hdt.7.104; “οὐδεὶς ὑπέσχετο εἰδέναι” Id.2.28, cf. Pl.Sph.234b, Tht.178e; also, profess to do a thing, “ὑ. ποιεῖν ἄνδρας ἀγαθοὺς πολίτας” Id.Prt. 319a, cf. Sph.232d; “θεοὺς ὑ. πείθειν” Id.Lg.909b; “ὑ. συστρατεύεσθαι” X.An.7.7.31 (-σεσθαι Cobet); with “ὡς, ὑ. ὡς . . ἐπίσταδαι” Pl.Ion 541e.
