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ὑπογρα^φ-ή , ἡ,
A.written accusation, Pl.Tht.172e (but perh. in signf.11.2), IG9(2).522.20 (Larissa, iii/ii B. C., dub. sens.); cf. “ὑπογράφω” 1.2.
b. in Egypt, an unknown form of legal procedure before a court, PEnteux.50.8 (iii B. C.), PPetr.2p.55 (iii B. C.).
c. decision of an official on a petition handed to him, PTeb.45.28 (ii B. C.); of a court (perh. orig. so called because written below a petition), including a record of the legal proceedings, UPZ118.1, 162 vii 33, ix 24 (ii B. C.), BGU1759.4, 1827.12 (i B. C.).
2. admission of liability in writing. IG12(7).3.35 (Amorgos, iv B. C.), Mél.Navarre357 (Thespiae), PEnteux.35.7 (iii B. C.).
3. copy, Phld.Acad.Ind.p.6 M. (pl.).
4. entering of horses at the Olympic games, D.S.13.74 codd. (ἀπογρ-Schaefer).
5. pl., = Lat. commentarii, App.Pun.136, BC4.132.
II. outline, contour, Arist.GA764b30; τενόντων ὑπογραφαί traces of feet, foot-prints, A.Ch.209.
2. architect's plan, SIG1156 (Priene, iii/ii B. C.); diagram, Ascl.Tact.11.7: metaph., outline, sketch, general description, opp. τελεωτάτη ἀπεργασία, Pl.R.504d, cf. 548d, Lg.737d; “θεωρείσθω ἐκ τῆς ὑ.” Arist.Int.22a22, Mete.346a32, HA510a30: Medic., as Empiric t.t., Gal.8.720.
3. in Logic, description, general illustration, opp. definition, Stoic.2.75.
4. example, illustration, “ὑπογραφῆς ἕνεκα” Ael.Tact.8.3.
III. painting under of the eyelids, X.Cyr.1.3.2, Nicostr. ap. Stob.4.23.62; cf. “ὑπόγραμμα” 11, ὑπογράφω v, ὑποχρίω.
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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    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 209
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 13.74
    • Plato, Laws, 737d
    • Plato, Republic, 504d
    • Plato, Republic, 548d
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 172e
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.3.2
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