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ὑπόληψις (later ὑπολήπ-λημψις Anon. in Tht.3.14, etc., v. infr. 11.3b), εως, ἡ, (ὑπολαμβάνω)
A.taking up, esp. taking up the cue, taking up the matter where another leaves off, “ἠνάγκασε τοὺς ῥαψῳδοὺς . . ἐξ ὑπολήψεως ἐφεξῆς αὐτὰ διιέναι” Pl.Hipparch.228b; cf. “ὑποβολή” 1.3.
2. rejoinder, reply, “ὑ. ποιεῖσθαι” Isoc. 11.30, cf. 12.150 (ἐπι- Cobet, Blass, in both places).
II. taking in a certain sense, assumption, notion, Pl.Def.413a sq., Arist.MM1235a20 (pl.); “ὑ. λαμβάνειν” Id.Rh.1417b10; “τῆς ὑπολήψεως διαφοραὶ ἐπιστήμη καὶ δόξα καὶ φρόνησις” Id.de An. 427b25; but distd. fr. νόησις, ib.b17; fr. ἐπιστήμη, Id.Top.149a10; joined with δόξα, Id.EN1139b17, Epicur.Fr.239; ὑ. ψευδεῖς, μοχθηραί, Id.Ep.3p.60U., Phld.Mus.p.49 K.; μὴ τοιαύτης οὔσης τῆς ὑπαρχούσης ὑ. περὶ ἑκατέρου unless such had been the existing impression, D.18.228: Chrysipp. wrote περὶ ὑπολιήψεως, Stoic.2.9; “οἱ τῆς ἐναντίας ὑ.” Sor.1.31.
2. hasty judgement, prejudice, suspicion, “ὑ. εἰς τοὺς δικαστὰς οὐ δικαία” Hyp.Eux.32, cf. Luc.Cal.5.
3. estimate formed of a person or thing, good or bad reputation, public opinion, Hdn.7.1.6; ἐν ὑπολήψει τυγχάνοντες being in high repute, Marcellin.Puls. 118.
b. conceit, “πολλοὺς ἐπλάνησεν ἡ ὑπόλημψις αὐτῶν” LXX Si.3.24.
4. estimate, plan, Epict.Ench.1.1.
III. perh. subvention, subsidy, Sammelb.7193vii 14, al. (ii A. D.), PTeb.341.12 (ii A. D.).
2. ὑ. ἑτέρου ἐλαιουργίου perh. taking over, BGU612.7 (i A. D.).
3. perh. payment in advance, PLond.3.895.12 (i A. D.), PRyl.2.127.25 (i A. D.).
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):
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 228
    • Hyperides, Against Athenogenes, 32
    • Isocrates, Busiris, 30
    • Isocrates, Panathenaicus, 150
    • Plato, Hipparchus, 228b
    • Epictetus, Enchiridion, 1.1
    • Old Testament, Ecclesiasticus, 3.24
    • Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, 5
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