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ὕπ-οπτος , ον, (ὑφοράω, fut. ὑπόψομαι)
A.viewed with suspicion or jealousy, of persons, A.Ag.1637; opp. πιστός (trusted), Th.3.82; c. dat., an object of suspicion to one, “πόλει” E.El.644, cf. Th.4.103, 104, etc.; ὕ. τινός suspected in relation to a thing, Plu Pomp.56; “ἐπί τινι” Luc.Cal.29: c. inf., ὑ. αὐτοῖς μὴ προθύμως πέμψαι suspected by them of not having sent . . , Th.6.75.
2. of things, “τάδ᾽ ἦν ὕποπτα” E.IT1334; “τούτων ὑπόπτων ὄντων” Antipho 2.2.4, cf. Epicur.Sent.13, Sammelb.5761.22 (i A. D.); “ὕ. ἂν γένοιτο” X.Cyr.2.4.16; ὕ. καθειστήκει c. inf., it was matter for suspicion to . . , Th.4.78: “τὰ ὕ.” suspected defects, Plu.Galb.24.
b. expected, foreseen, of ague fits, ὕ. ἡμέρα, προσβολή, Ruf.Fr.68, Dsc.5.113.
3. Adv., -τως διακεῖσθαι or ἔχειν to lie under suspicion, τινι Th.8.68, X.HG2.3.40.
II. Act., suspecting, fearing, c. gen., “ἁλώσεως” E.Hec.1135; “πρὸς φαρμακίην ὕ.” Aret. SD1.5, etc.: τὸ ὕ. suspicion, jealousy, “τὸ ὕ. τῆς γνώμης” Th.1.90, cf. Plu.Cleom.36, Hdn.4.1.1; τῷ ὑ. μου from suspicion of me, Th.6.89; “εἰς ὕποπτα μὴ μόλῃς ἐμοί” E.El.345. Adv., with suspicion, “-τως ἀποδέχεσθαι πάντα” Th.6.53, cf. 8.66; “ὑ. ἔχειν πρός τινα” Isoc.8.112, D.19.132; “περὶ τὰ προσφερόμενα” Arist.Pr.926b22.
2. of a horse, = ὑπόπτης 2, Poll.1.197.
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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