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ὑπωρόφ-ιος , ον, also a, ον Pi.P.1.97, AP7.424 (Antip.Sid.): (ὄροφος):—
A.under the roof, dwelling under it, under cover, in a house, Il.9.640; “τόξα . . νηῷ κεῖται ὑπωρόφια” Simon.143; φόρμιγγες ὑ. the harps sounding in the hall, Pi.P.1.97; parodied, ὑ. φάλαγγες (spiders) Ar.Ra.1313 (lyr.); ὑ. δόμοι, = ὑπερῷα, Mosch.2.6.
2. ὑπωροφία (sc. χώρα), ἡ, the woodwork of a tiled roof, IG11(2).161A51 (Delos, iii B. C.); Dor. ὑπωρυφία ib.42(1).102.42 (Epid., iv B. C.); the space under the roof or canopy, D.S.18.26; “καπνώδεις ὑ.” App.BC4.13.
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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