A.“ὑφειλάμην” LXXJb.21.18): Ion. ὑπαιρέω , etc., Hdt.3.65, al.:—serze underneath or inwardly, “τοὺς δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὑπὸ τρόμος εἷλεν” Il.5.862, cf. Od.24.450.
II. draw or take away from under, “ὑπὸ δ᾽ ᾕρεον ἕρματα νηῶν” Il.2.154; “ἄνθεμον ποντίας ἐέρσας” Pi.N.7.79; [τὸ παιδίον τῆς μητρός] Pl.Tht.161a; τὴν χεῖρα ὑφῄρει tried to draw it away, Ar.Pl.689.
2. take away underhand, filch away, [“τῶν Ἀθηναίων] τοὺς ξυμμάχους” Th.3.13; ὑ. τὴν πρόσοδον, τὴν εὐπορίαν, diminish it gradually, ib.31,82; purloin, steal, “βοῦν” PSI4.366.2 (iii B. C.); ταῦτα (sc. ζεῦγος χεροψελίων κτλ.) ib.10.1128.30 (iii A.D.); of a doctor, ὑ. τὸ οἰνάριον καὶ τὸ λουτρόν remove from the regime, Sor.2.15; ὑ. τῆς ὑποψίας gradually to take away part of . . , Th.1.42; so “ὑ. τοῦ πλήθεος” Hp.VM5; “τοῦ τόνου” Luc.Philops.8; “τῆς ὀργῆς” Phalar.Ep.72 codd. (ὑφῆκα Valckenaer):—Pass., “ὑφῃρέθη σου, κάλαμος ὡσπερεὶ λύρας” S.Fr.36; “ὑπαραιρημένος” put secretly away, made away with, Hdt.3.65:—also Med., filch, purloin, Ar.Eq.745, Nu.179, Pl.1140, D.45.58, PCair.Zen.350.4 (iii B. C.), etc.; “ὑ. τοὺς καιροὺς τῆς πόλεως” Aeschin.3.66; τὴν δημοκρατίαν ἄρδην ὑ. ib.145; ὑ. τί τινος filch it from him, Hdt.5.83, Lys.14.37, etc.; “χρήματα ἐξ Ἐλαιοῦντος” Hdt.9.116; “ὑ. μοῦ τὴν ἀπολογίαν” Hyp.Lyc.11; “ὑ. τι ἐξ ἱερῶν ἢ ὁσίων” Pl.Lg.857b: abs., Ar.V.556.
3. Med. also c. acc. pers., ὑ. τινά τινος rob him of . . , Aeschin.3.222; σιγῇ τοῦθ᾽ ὑφαιρούμεσθά νιν keep it from him . . , E.El.271.
4. subtract, deduct, “ὑφαιρεθέντος τοῦ ἐπιδεκάτου” IG42(1).103.325, al. (Epid., iv B. C.); “ὑφαιρουμένης τῆς προικὸς τῆς προδεδομένης” POxy.1102.10 (ii A. D.).