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ὑπήκοος , ον, (ἀκοή)
A.hearkening, ἀμφοτέροισι perh. answering with both gifts, AP9.46 (Antip. Thess.); a hearer, scholar, Poll.4.44, Iamb. VP26.121.
II. obeying, subject, c. gen., “Πέρσας Μήδων ὑπηκόους ἐποίησε” Hdt.1.102, cf. 4.167,7.111,149, A.Pers.234,242 (both troch.), Th.4.78,6.20, etc.; “ὑ. τῶν νόμων” Arist.EN1102a10.
2. c. dat., E. Heracl.287, X.Cyr.2.4.22; “ἅπαντα τῷ πλουτεῖν ὑπήκοα” Ar.Pl.146; “γλῶττα ὑ. τῷ λογισμῷ” Plu.2.90b; also ναυσὶ καὶ οὐ φόρῳ ὑ. liable to furnish . . (cf. ὑποτελής), Th.7.57; τροφὴ ὑ. τῇ πέψει easy of digestion, Plu.2.661b; ὕλη ὑ. phlegm easily brought up, Steph. in Hp.1.181 D.
III. abs. as Subst., ὑπήκοοι, οἱ, subjects, X.HG4.1.36, etc.; ἡ ὑ. (sc. χώρα) D.C.36.53; τὸ ὑ. = οἱ ὑ., τὸ ὑ. τῶν ξυμμάχων Th.6.69, cf. D.C.37.25, etc.; the subject allies of Athens were called ὑπήκοοι, opp. αὐτόνομοι, Th.7.57, cf. 6.22, 8.2.
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, Persians, 234
    • Aeschylus, Persians, 242
    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 146
    • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1102a.10
    • Euripides, Heraclidae, 287
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.167
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.2
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 2.4.22
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.1.36
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 36.53
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