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ὑποκόλπ-ιος , ον,
A.lying on the bosom, in the lap, “ἄλλος τοι γλυκίων ὑποκόλπιος;” Theoc. 14.37; “ἐραστὴν . . ἔχονθ᾽ ὑποκόλπιον ἄλλην” AP5.129 (Maec.), cf. 274 (Paul. Sil.); Κυδίλλης ὑποκόλπιος ib.24.
2. worn or concealed in the fold of the robe, “ξίφη” Hdn.7.11.3; “βιβλίδιον” AP12.208 (Strat.).
II. in the mother's womb, “Ἀπόλλων ὑποκόλπιος αἰνὰ χολώθη” Call.Del.86.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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