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ὑφέρπω , (v. ἕρπω)
A.creep on secretly, ὑφεῖρπε γὰρ πολύ the report spread far, S.OT786; φθονερὸν ὑπ᾽ ἄλγος ἕρπει Ἀτρείδαις angry feelings creep abroad against them, A.Ag.450 (lyr.).
II. c. acc., “ὑ. εὐνήν” Philostr.VA1.37; “ὑ. σκοπόν” secretly aim at, Hld.10.19.
2. like ὑπέρχομαι 11, of involuntary feelings, steal upon, come over, “χαρά μ᾽ ὑφέρπει” A.Ag.270; “τρόμος μ᾽ ὑ.” Id.Ch.463 (lyr.).
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, Agamemnon, 450
    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 463
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 786
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 270
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 1.37
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