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ὑπόνοια , ἡ, (ὑπονοέω)
A.suspicion, conjecture, guess, Ar.Pax993 (pl., anap.); “τοῦ μὴ συνειληφέναι” Sor.2.54, cf. Gal.6.663; ὑπόνοιαι τῶν μελλόντων notions formed of future events, Th.5.87; “ἡ ὑ. τῶν ἔργων” Id.2.41, cf. E.Ph.1133; in bad sense, “ὑπόνοιαι πλασταί” D.48.39, cf. Men.Mon.732.
2. suggestion, Phld.Mus.p.71 K.; imputation, Id.D.1.13.
II. the real meaning which lies at the bottom of a thing, deeper sense, “τὰς ὑ. οὐκ ἐπίστανται” X.Smp.3.6; esp. covert meaning (such as is conveyed by myths and allegories), “ὁ . . νέος οὐχ οἷός τε κρίνειν ὅτι τε ὑ. καὶ ὃ μή” Pl.R.378d, cf. Plu.2.19e; opp. αἰσχρολογία, Arist.EN1128a24; “καθ᾽ ὑπόνοιαν” by insinuation, covertly, Plb.28.4.5, D.H.Rh.9.1; “δι᾽ ὑπονοιῶν” Alciphr.2.4.
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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    • Aristophanes, Peace, 993
    • Demosthenes, Against Olympiodorus, 39
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    • Plato, Republic, 378d
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.87
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.41
    • Xenophon, Symposium, 3.6
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