A.draw away under, draw away underhand or gently, ὑ. [τινὰ] ποδοῖιν draw one away by the two feet, Il.14.477; draw away by undermining, “ὑ. παρὰ σφᾶς τὸν χοῦν” Th.2.76, cf. D.C.66.4; “ὑ. κάτωθεν τὸ κλιμάκιον” Plu.2.781e; ὑ. τοὺς πόδας, i.e. to be slippery, Poll.1.187: —Med., περσικὰς ὑφέλκομαι I trail Persian slippers under my feet, Ar.Ec.319:—Pass., “ὑφελκέσθω τὸ ὑποπόδιον” Heliod. ap. Orib.49.8.19.
ὑφέλκ-ω ,
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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