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ὑπηχέω ,
A.sound in answer, echo, respond, “ὑπὸ δ᾽ ἤχεεν οὔρεα μακρά” Hes.Th.835; “ἔρρηξε δ᾽ αὐδήν, ὥσθ᾽ ὑπηχῆσαι χθόνα” E.Supp.710; ὥστε τὴν κώμην ὑπηχεῖν so that the village rang again, Pherecr.10 (troch.); θερινὸν ὑπηχεῖ τῷ τῶν τεττίγων χορῷ echoes summer-like with the cicada-choir, Pl.Phdr.230c; of musical strings, Arist.Pr.921b15: metaph., with neut. Adj., “ἄλλο ὑ.” Luc.DMar.1.4; “σαθρὸν καὶ ἀγεννές” Plu.2.64e.
2. prompt, suggest, esp. of an inner voice, Ph.1.599,645,659,692, 2.12; καθάπερ ὑποβολέως ἔνδοθεν ὑπηχοῦντος ib.416.
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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    • Euripides, Suppliants, 710
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 835
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 230c
    • Lucian, Dialogi Marini, 1.4
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