A.master or weaken beneath one, “ποταμὸς ὑπὸ γούνατ᾽ ἐδάμνα” Il.21.270:—Pass. ὑποδάμνα^μαι (from *ὑποδάμνημι ), to be overcome, overpowered, “εἰπέ μοι ἠὲ ἑκὼν ὑποδάμνασαι” Od.3.214, 16.95; aor. 1 part. ὑποδμηθεῖσα, of a woman, subdued by a man, yielding to his embrace, h.Hom.17.4, Hes.Sc.53, Th.327,374; also ὑποδμηθείς, of a man, subdued by love, AP5.299 (Paul. Sil.); “ἀλλήλοις ὑποδεδμῆσθαι” to be married, Eust. 1418.38:—Med., “Ἔρος φρένας ὑποδάμναται” Theoc.29.23, cf. Q.S.1.336, 6.284.
ὑποδαμνάω ,
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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