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ὑποσπάω ,
A.draw away from under, “στρώματα” D.24.197; “τὰ σκολύθριά τινων ὑ.” Pl.Euthd.278b; “τὸν κίονα” Arist.Ph.255b25; ὑ. τινὰ ἐκ τῶν ποδῶν, i. e. trip him up, Luc.Asin.44, cf. Plu.2.535f.
2. draw off, “τὴν ὑποστάθμην” Protagorid.4; “τὸ πῦρ” Dsc.1.30; ὑ. τῆς ποσότητος τοῦ γάλακτος reduce the baby's ration of milk, Sor.1.116.
II. metaph., withdraw secretly. filch away, “ποίμνης νεογνὸν θρέμμ᾽ ὑποσπάσας” E.El.495; ὑπέσπασεν φυγῇ πόδα withdrew his foot secretly, stole away, Id.Ba.436:—Med. ὑποσπάσασθαι in X.Eq.7.8 is (prob.) to draw one's skirts from under one, of a horseman after mounting:—Pass., to be withdrawn, Arist.Somn.Vig.457b24.
2. εἰπεῖν ὑ. refuse to say, Phld.Lib.p.23 O.
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 (4):
    • Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 197
    • Euripides, Electra, 495
    • Plato, Euthydemus, 278b
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 7.8
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