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ὑποπτήσσω ,
A.crouch or cower beneath, like hares, birds, etc., πετάλοις ὑποπεπτηῶτες (Ep. pf. part. from shorter stem πτη-, cf. κατα-, προσ-πτήσσω) Il.2.312; “ὑποπτήξας τάφῳ” E.Hel.1203; “ὑπέπτηχε” cowers, Luc.Musc.Enc.4.
II. metaph., crouch before another, bow down to, τινι X.Cyr.1.5.1; also “ὑ. τοὺς νέους θεούς” A.Pr.960, cf. 29, X.Cyr.1.6.8; “τὸ τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἀξίωμα” Aeschin.2.105: abs., to be modest or shy, X.Cyr.1.3.8.
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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    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 105
    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 29
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    • Homer, Iliad, 2.312
    • Lucian, Muscae Encomium, 4
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