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ὑπεκ-τίθεμαι , Med.,
A.bring one's property to a place of safety, of persons or things which one removes from the dangers of war, “ἔστ᾽ ἂν αὐτοὶ τέκνα τε καὶ τοὺς οἰκέτας ὑπεκθέωνται” Hdt.8.4, cf. 41, Th.1.89; “ἐκ χερῶν κλέψασ᾽ Ὀρέστην τῶν ἐμῶν ὑπεξέθου” S.El.297; “ὃν ἔξω δωμάτων ὑπεξέθου” E.Andr.69; “ὑπεκθέμενοι παιδας ἐς Σαλαμῖνα” Lys.2.34; “ὑ. τὰ χρήματα” X.Cyr.6.1.26; τοῖς ὑπεκτεθημένοις (sic) “τὰ βοσκήματα διὰ τὸν πόλεμον” BCH54.269 (Rhamnus, iii B. C.); pueros “ὑπεκθέμενος” in Graeciam, Cic.Att.7.17.4, cf. OGI437.64 (Pergam., i B. C.):—Pass., “ὑπεκτιθέμενοι ἔξω τῆς χώρης οἱ παῖδες . . ἥλωσαν” Hdt.5.65.
II. deposit for re-exportation, εἰ δέ τί κα . . ὑπέχθηται (Cret. for ὑπέκ-θηται) GDI5040.21; cf. ὑπεκθέσιμος.
III. Act. -τίθημι, expose a new-born child, Lib.Decl.34.14: in Med. simply, bring forth, “γεννᾶν καὶ ὑ. τὸν τόκον” Jul.Or.4.145a.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 7.17.4
    • Euripides, Andromache, 69
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.65
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.4
    • Lysias, Funeral Oration, 34
    • Sophocles, Electra, 297
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.89
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 6.1.26
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