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ὑποκατα-κλίνω [ι_],
A.lay down under:—Pass., lie down under, Plu.2.50d; of a wrestler allowing himself to be beaten, ib.58f.
II. Pass. also, lie or sit lower at table, τινι ib.618e; “πάντων” J.AJ12.4.9 (so, more rarely, in Act., seat under another at table, τινα Luc.Gall.11).
2. metaph., give way, submit, be complaisant, τινι to one, Pl.R.336c; ἀλλήλοις ἐν τῇ ζητήσει ib.e; “ὑ. τισὶ τῆς ἀξιώσεως” D.H.6.24,71: abs., give in, D. 9.64, Plu.Pomp.75, etc.; “θεραπεύων καὶ -όμενος” D.Chr.6.57.
3. ὑ. τοῦ εὶς πλέον ἐναντιοῦσθαι desist from further opposition, J.AJ 18.1.1.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Demosthenes, Philippic 3, 64
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 18.1.1
    • Plato, Republic, 336c
    • Plutarch, Pompey, 75
    • Lucian, Gallus, 11
    • Dio Chrysostom, Orationes, 6.57
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 6.24
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 71
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