I. actively, a throwing or laying under, στρωμάτων, opp. περιβολή, Pl.Plt.280b; “μεθ᾽ ὑποβολῆς πλείονος φλογός” Sor.1.50; ἡ τῶν ἐνεδρευόντων ὑ. setting men in ambush, Plb.3.105.1; “ἐπανάγονται τρισὶ τριήρεσιν ἐξ ὑ.” Id.15.2.12.
2. substitution by stealth, esp. of suppositious children, Pl.R.538a, Satyr.Vit.Eur.Fr.39 vii 10 (pl.), Luc.Salt.37; ὑποβολῆς γράφεσθαί τινα charge one with being supposititious, AB312, cf. sq.; also ὑ. κλειδῶν substitution of false keys, Plu. Rom.22.
3. suggesting, reminding, ἐξ ὑποβολῆς by admonition, X. Cyr.3.3.37; ἐξ ὑπομνής εως καὶ ὑ. . . τοῦ ἐπισκόπου on the suggestion of . . , Sammelb.7475.8 (vi/vii A. D.); τίνος ὑποβολῇ; = cujus impulsu ? Gloss.; ὑ. ἡ πρὸς ἄρχοντα ἢ βασιλέα γινομένη ἀναφορὰ ἤτοι διδασκαλία, = suggestio, ibid.; τὰς τῶν περιστάσεων ὑ. the influence of circumstances (on Hannibal's actions), Plb.9.24.3; ἐξ ὑ. δυέναι τὸν ὅρκον at the dictation of another, Polem.Hist.83; ἐξ ὑ. λέγειν deliver a speech with a prompter at hand (= λέγειν τὸ ἐξ ἀναγνώσεως καὶ γραφῆς ὑποβαλλόμενον), Apollon. ap. Sch.B Il.19.80:—τὰ Ὁμήρου ἐξὑ. γέγραφε ῥαψῳδεῖσθαι (sc. Σόλων）, οἷον ὅπου ὁ πρῶτος ἔληξεν, ἐκεῖθεν ἄρχεσθαι τὸν ἐχόμενον Solon enacted that the poems of Homer should be recited from a cue . . , D.L.1.57: ὑποβολή perh. = ῥαψῳδία in Michel 913 (Teos, ii B. C.): cf. “ὑποβάλλω” 111, “ὑποβλήδην, ὑπόλήψις” 1.1.
5. Medic., αἱ ἐξ ὑ. ἐγχρίσεις anointing by interposition or beneath (the eyelid), opp. αἱ κατ᾽ ἐκτροπήν, Antyll. ap. Orib.10.23.24; “καθ᾽ ὑποβολήν” Sever. ap.Aët.7.32.
II. passively, that which is put under, foundation, groundwork, “πρὸς τὴν Ῥωμύλου . . αὔξησιν τὴν μὲν Τύχην ὑποβολὰς κατατεθεῖσθαι, τὴν δ᾽ Ἀρετὴν ἐξῳκοδομηκέναι” Plu.2.320b; “ἀρχὴ καὶ ὑ. τοῦ σωφρονεῖν ἡ ἐν σίτοις καὶ ποτοῖς ἐγκράτεια” Muson.Fr.18Ap.94 H.; φυσικὴν εἶναι ὑ. τῇ ψυχῇ πρὸς καλοκἀγαθίαν a natural foundation or capacity for . . , Id.Fr.2p.7H.; ἐν πολλοῖς [τῶν ζῴων] ὑποβολὰς ἔχων πρὸς τὸ τέλειον [ὁ λόγος θεωρεῖται] Porph.Abst.3.2; subject-matter of discourse, Luc.Dem.Enc.21.
