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ὑποβρύχιος [υ^χ], ον, also α, ον,
A.under water, “τὴν δ᾽ ἄνεμος . . καὶ κῦμα θαλάσσης θῆκαν ὑποβρυχίην” h.Hom.33.12; ὑποβρύχιον . . φέρων (sc. τὸν ἵππον) Hdt.1.189; “ὑ. θάνατοι” Cat.Cod.Astr.2.161: metaph., “ἡ Ἑλλὰς ὑ. φερομένη” Aristid.Or.23(42).46.
II. below the surface, “ὑποβρύχιαι συμπεριφέρονται” Pl.Phdr.248a; opp. ἐπιπολάζων, Luc.Dips.3; deep-seated, “ἐκπυήσιες” Hp.Art.12; ὑ. πυρετός a hidden fever, one that shows itself by degrees, Id.Epid.1.25 (so Littré with Gal.9.560; ἄρχεται μαλακῶς καὶ ὑποβρύχια [Adv.] codd., Kühl.); “πυρετοὶ -ιοι” Aret.SD2.9; ὀφθαλμῶν ὑ. πόνος ib.1.2; “πῦρ” Id.SA2.7.
2. deep, θάλασσα, βυσσός, Opp.H.1.49, 5.159.—Cf. βρύχιος, περιβρύχιος.
III. = ὑποβρυχώμενος, of oxen, h.Merc.116.
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, 1.189
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 33 to the Dioscuri, 12
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 116
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 248a
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 12
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 2.7
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 1.2
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 2.9
    • Lucian, Dipsades, 3
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