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ὑποπτ-εύω ,
A.to be suspicious, X.Hier.2.17, Lys.1.10; ὑ. ἔς τινας c. inf. fut., have suspicions of them that . . , Th.4.51.
2. merely, suspect, guess, suppose, opp. ἱκανῶς συννοῶ, Pl.Tht.164a, cf. X.HG5.4.29; have an inkling of, Pl.Grg.453b; “ὁ ἵππος ὑ. τι” X.Eq.6.14:—Pass., to be conjectured, Pl.Lg.967b.
II. trans., suspect, hold in suspicion, τινα S.El.43, Th.8.39; “θὴρ ὑ. κυναγώς” Theoc.23.10; ὑ. τινὰ ἔς τι of something, Hdt.3.44:—Pass., to be suspected, mistrusted, Th.4.86; “εἴς τι” Id.6.92, Arist.Rh.Al.1437a1: impers., ὡς ὑπωπτεύετο as was generally suspected, X.HG5.4.20.
2. c. acc. pers. et inf., suspect that he . . , “ὑ. αὐτὸν δρησμὸν βουλεύειν” Hdt.8.100, cf. 127, Th.4.126, Pl. Tht.151b: c. inf. fut., “ἄν τινας ὑποπτεύῃ μὴ ἐπιτρέψειν αὐτῷ ἄρχειν” Id.R.567a, cf. Hdt.3.77: also ὑ. τινὰ ὡς . . suspect of him that . . , ib.68; ὑ. μὴ . . Id.9.90.
3. c. acc. rei, look with suspicion or apprehension on, “τὸ πρῆγμα” Id.6.129; “τὸ μέλλον” E.Rh.49 (lyr.): also ὑ. τι suspect something, Id.IT1036, etc.; “δεινὸν προσδοκᾶν ἢ ὑ.” Epicur.Ep.1p.30U.; “τι περί τινος” Pl.Cra.409d; “τι κατά τινος” Plb. 8.20.2: c. acc. et inf., “ἀλογώτατα ὑ. ἀεὶλέγεσθαι” Phld.Ir.p.44 W.
III. observe, notice, δεῖ ἀκριβῶς ὑποπτεύειν ἥτις ἐστὶν ἡ ποιητικὴ αἰτία (of a gout-attack) Alex.Trall.12:—Med., τὸν ἄρρωστον ὑ. εἰ πάρεστι πυρετός Id.Verm.init.
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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