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ὑπό-κρι^σις , εως, ἡ,
I. Ion. (and perh. in Porph.Chr.35.10), reply, answer (cf. “ὑποκρίνω” B. I), Hdt.1.116, 9.9; “τῶν χρηστηρίων” Id.1.90; but the Att. word ἀπόκρισις occurs in codd. at 1.49,5.50.
II. Att., playing a part on the stage, Arist.EN1118a8, Phld.Mus.p.91K.
2. an orator's delivery, Arist.Rh.1386a32, 1403b22, 1413b18, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.96, Phld.Rh.1.195 S., 201 S. (pl.); οἱ κατὰ τὴν ὑ. ῥήτορες orators who depend on their delivery, opp. to the authors of written speeches, Arist.Rh.1404a18.
b. tone or manner of an animal's cry, ὁ κυνηγέτης ἀπὸ τῆς ὑ. ᾔσθετο τοῦ κυνὸς ὑλακτοῦντος νῦν μὲν ὅτι ζητεῖ τὸν λαγών, νῦν δὲ ὅτι εὗρεν . . Porph.Abst.3.5.
3. metaph., playing a part, hypocrisy, outward show, Phoc.2 B, Plb.35.2.13, LXX 2 Ma.6.25, Ev.Matt. 23.28, al., Luc.Somn.17.
4. ὑπόκρισιν, as Adv., after the manner of, “δελφῖνος ὑ.” Pi.Oxy.408.69 ( = Fr.235).
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 (9):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.116
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.49
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.90
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.50
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.9
    • Polybius, Histories, 35.2.13
    • Old Testament, 2 Maccabees, 6.25
    • New Testament, Matthew, 23.28
    • Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, 17
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