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ὑπ-έρχομαι , aor. ὑπῆλθον, Ep. -ήλυθον, the only tense used by Hom. (in both forms); Dor.subj.
A.“ὑπένθῃ” Berl.Sitzb.1927.158 (Cyrene); pf. “ὑπελήλυθε” Men.498:—go or come under, get under, c. acc., “ὑπήλυθε θάμνους” Od.5.476; “ὑπήλθετε δῶμ᾽ Ἀΐδαο” 12.21; “ἐπεί κε μέλαθρον ὑπέλθῃ” 18.150, cf. Berl.Sitzb. l.c.; “ὄφρ᾽ ἂν γᾶν ὑπέλθῃ” A.Eu.339 (lyr.); [“ἡ μήτρα] ὅλη [τὴν κύστιν] ὑπελήλυθεν” Sor.1.7: with a Prep., ὑπὸ τὴν φορὰν τοῦ ἀκοντίου come within its range, Antipho 3.2.5; “εἰς τὴν ὁδὸν τοῦ ἀκοντίου” Id.3.4.5; ὑπὸ τὸ βέλος ibid.: rarely c. dat., τοῖς στενοῖς enter (come under the mountains), Plu.Comp.Per.Fab.2.
II. of involuntary feelings, come upon, steal over one, c. acc., “Τρῶας δὲ τρόμος αἰνὸς ὑπήλυθε γυῖα” Il.7.215, 20.44; “φρίκης αὐτὸν ὑπελθούσης” Hdt.6.134; “ὥς μ᾽ ὑπῆλθέ τις φόβος” S.Ph.1231, cf. El.1112; θαῦμά τοί μ᾽ ὑπέρχεται ib.928; ὥσθ᾽ ἵμερός μ᾽ ὑπῆλθε . . E.Med.57, cf. Philem.79.1; “οὐ γάρ τις οἶκτος σῆς μ᾽ ὑ. φυγῆς” E.Hipp.1089; ἐς δ᾽ ἄκραν δεῖμ᾽ ὑπῆλθε κρατὸς φόβαν, of fear causing the hair to stand up, S.OC 1465 (lyr.); “ἐκ ποδῶν δ᾽ ἄνω ὑ. σπαραγμὸς εἰς ἄκρον κάρα” A.Fr.169; “ὑπελήλυθέν τέ μου νάρκα τις ὅλον τὸ δέρμα” Men.498.
III. of persons, creep or insinuate oneself into another's good graces, fawn upon, “εἶδες οἷ᾽ ὑπέρχεται ἡμᾶς;” Ar.Eq.269 (troch.); “οἱ κριταὶ ὑ. Ἀλκιβιάδην” And.4.21; ὑ. τὰς ἀρχάς, τοὺς πολεμίους, X.Lac.8.2, Ath.2.14; “ὑ. πάντας ἀνθρώπους καὶ δουλεύων” Pl.Cri.53e; “ὑ. καὶ θεραπεύειν” D.23.8; “ὑ. δώροις καὶ κολακείαις” Plu.Luc.6.
2. entrap, beguile, “λάθρᾳ μ᾽ ὑπελθών” S.OT 386; “οἷ αὖ μ᾽ ὑπῆλθες” Id.Ph.1007; “δόλῳ μ᾽ ὑπῆλθες” E.Andr.435, cf. Supp.138, IA67; “τὸν ἄνδρα ποικίλως ὑ. ἐν λόγοισιν” Ar.Eq.459.
IV. c. acc. rei, seek by base arts, “τυραννίδα” Plu.Dio7; “φιλίαν” D.Chr.74.5.
V. advance slowly, of an army, X.An.5.2.30; cf. “ὑπάγω” A. 111.
VI. recede, give way, “ὑπελθόντος τοῦ ἀέρος” Arist.Cael.295a22 (s. v.l.).
VII. of excrements, pass, Gal.18(2).147, Orib.Eup.1.9.10; ὑπέρχεται ῥᾳδίως, of laxative food, Gal.6.629; also of semen, “καθεύδοντι ὑπέρχεται” Ruf. ap. Orib.6.38.29.
VIII. undertake, assume, ὑπελθεῖν τοὔνομα καὶ τὸ ἔργον assume the title and the duty, Lib.Or.49.5.
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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