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ὑποπίπτω , fut.
A.“-πεσοῦμαι” Phld.Mort.32:—fall under or down, sink in, “ὑ. ἡ σάρξ” Longus 1.13: metaph., “τὸ θράσος ὑ.” Plu.Crass.18.
2. fall down, cringe before any one, Pl.R.576a, X.Cyn.10.18: hence, to be subject to him, fall under his power, “τῆς Ἑλλάδος ὑπὸ τὴν πόλιν -πιπτούσης” Isoc.7.12: also of a flatterer, cringe to, fawn on, τινι Is. 6.29, D.45.63,65,59.43, Arr.Epict.4.1.55: abs., “καταντιβολεῖτον αὐτὸν ὑποπεπτωκότες” Ar.Fr.625, cf. Plu.2.525d; “ὑποπεσὼν τὸν δεσπότην ᾔκαλλ᾽” Ar.Eq.47, cf. Aeschin.3.116; of dogs, “προσδέχονται καὶ ὑ. ἥκοντας” Philostr.Her.Prooem.1; of suppliants, “ὑποπεσεῖν ἐπὶ δεήσει” J.AJ16.4.4; “ὑποπίπτοντα καὶ δεόμενον” Plu.2.540d.
3. [τὸ λουτρὸν] ὑποπῖπτον τῇ τοῦ σώματος ἀραιώσει following immediately upon . . , Sor. 1.46.
4. fall under, “ἄνισοι περιφέρειαι τοῦ ἡλιακοῦ κύκλου ὑπὸ ἴσας περιφερείας τοῦ ζῳδιακοῦ κύκλου ὑποπεπτώκασιν” Gem.1.38: metaph., fall under a class or system, “ὑπὸ τὴν τάξιν” Iamb.VP34.241, cf. Phld. Rh.1.75 S.; c. dat., Plu.2.777b, Gal.15.453; τὰ μὲν καθόλου . . , τὰ δ᾽ ὑποπίπτοντα cases falling under the rule, Plu.2.569e.
II. get in under or among, “ἐς τοὺς ταρσοὺς τῶν νεῶν” Th.7.40; “φονεύειν τοὺς ὑποπίπτοντας” those who fall in one's way, Plb.3.86.11.
III. of accidents, happen to, befall, τινι E.Fr.223: intr., happen, fall out, κατὰ τὸ ὑποπῖπτον as occasion arises, Archim.Eratosth.Prooem.; “τὰ ὑποπίπτοντα” events, circumstances, Plb.1.68.3; “τὰ ὑπὸ τὸν αὐτὸν ὑποπεπτωκότα καιρόν” Id.2.58.14; ὅταν ὁ καιρὸς ὑ., ἐάν τις ὑ. χρεία, Id.10.17.1, 31.8.8: also, come into one's head, suggest itself, Isoc.5.85, Archim.Sph. Cyl.1Prooem.; “πᾶν τὸ ὑποπεσόν” D.L.7.180; enter the mind, of ideas or impressions, Phld.Mort.39, S.E.P.1.35,40, etc.; come under observation, Id.M.8.60, Zeno Stoic.1.19; “τοῖς αἰσθητηρίοις” Phld.D.3.15; “τῇ ἁφῇ” Sor.2.21, cf. 1.58, al.; “τῇ δυνάμει τῇ ὁρατικῇ” Arr.Epict.1.6.4; “ταῖς ὄψεσι” Gp.2.10.2; “τοῖς ἰδιώταις” Gal.19.218; “τῇ μαίᾳ” Sor.1.1,2; “οἱ σολοικισμοὶ ἀκοῇ -ουσιν” A.D.Synt.199.2.
2. of persons, to be subjected to, “τῷ ὀστράκῳ” Plu.Arist.1, cf. Nic.11; “αἰτίαις” Hdn.6.1.7.
3. surrender, D.S.13.21, 14.46, Nic.Dam.127.7 J.; succumb, ἐν τῷ παλαίειν Plu.2.58e.
IV. collapse underneath, of a substructure, Pl.Lg. 793c.
V. of places, like ὑπόκειμαι, lie under or below, “τοῖς ὄρεσιν” Plb.3.54.2, cf. Str.9.1.15; lie behind, Plb.6.31.1.
2. to be exposed to attack from, “τοῖς πολεμίοις” Id.12.21.5, cf. Str.6.2.5.
3. of persons or their actions, to be exposed or liable to, “ζημίᾳ” PFlor.278 ii 12, 27, al. (iii A. D.); “συγκρίματι” PAmh.2.68.34 (i A. D.); ἐγκυκλίῳ (a tax) POxy.1462.29 (i A. D.).
VI. of revenue, belong, accrue to, τινι Sammelb.5245.9 (i A. D.), cf. PSI4.288.9 (ii A. D.); “τῷ ἰδίῳ λόγῳ” PLond.2.355.8 (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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