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ὑποτρέχω , aor. -έδρα^μον (v. infr.): poet. pf.
A.-δέδρομαh.Ap.284; -δεδρόμηκα (v. infr. IV):—run in under, ὑπέδραμε καὶ λάβε γούνων ran in under the spear or sword and clasped his knees, Il.21.68, Od. 10.323 (though it may be only, ran up to him); “. πρὸς στέρνα πατρόςE.IA631, cf. [636]; “ὑπὸ τοὺς πόδας τοῦ ἵππου ὑπέδραμεHdt. 7.88; . ὑπὸ τὴν τοῦ ἀκοντίου φοράν in under, within the dart's range, Antipho 3.2.4: later c. acc., “νησίον .run under the lee of . . , Act.Ap. 27.16; “. πρῶναςThem.Or.13.168b; “τὸν τρίβωναPhilostr.Ep.7: c. dat., [ταῖς πλατάνοις] Plu.2.185e; ναυλόχοις ib.243e.
II. run under, stretch away under,ὑποδέδρομε βῆσσαh.Ap.284.
3. interrupt, Diusap.Stob.4.21.17.
4. usurp,τὴν Ἡρακλέους προσηγορίανS.E.M.9.36; τὴν τῶν θεῶν τιμήν ib.38:—Pass., τὰς ὑποδεδραμημένας ἐπιστατείας the posts into which they have crept, PTeb.24.67 (ii B. C.).
IV. overrun, steal over, ἔρευθος . steals over the skin, Hp.Fract.27; καί τις οἷον ἀπελπισμὸς ὑπέδραμεν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους a kind of despair came over people, Plb.30.32.11; “καί τις ἔλεος αὐτὸν ὑποτρέχειId.9.10.7: also c. dat., “αὔτικα χρῷ τῦρ ὐπαδεδρόμακενSapph.2.10; in slightly different sense, ὑπέδραμέ τις ἔννοια . . τοῖς ἀνθρώπις occurred to people, Plb.16.6.10; οὐχ ὑπέδραμε δέ it did not occur to him, Str.12.3.27, cf. Arr.Epict.4.2.2: c. acc. et inf., Plb.14.12.5.
V. insinuate oneself into any one's good graces, flatter, fawn upon,. τινὰ θωπείᾳE.Or.670, cf. Aeschin.3.162; “ὃς δ᾽ ἂν . . χαρίζηται ὑποτρέχωνPl.R.426c; “θωπείαις ὑποδραμώνId.Lg.923b; “. καὶ κολακεύεινPhld.Ir.p.66 W.
VI. Medic., ἢν οἷον λίθοι ὑποτρέχωσιν if what seem to be stones get into the eye, Hp.Loc.Hom.13; but ὡς τὸ δάκρυον συμπεπηγὸς ὑποτρέχειν ποιέῃς so as to make the coagulated tears run off, ibid.
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    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 162
    • Antiphon, Second Tetralogy, 2.4
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 742
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 676
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Aulis, 631
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    • Euripides, Orestes, 670
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.88
    • Homer, Odyssey, 10.323
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 3 to Apollo, 284
    • Plato, Laws, 923b
    • Plato, Republic, 426c
    • Strabo, Geography, 12.3.27
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.2.12
    • Homer, Iliad, 21.68
    • Polybius, Histories, 14.12.5
    • Polybius, Histories, 16.6.10
    • Polybius, Histories, 30.32.11
    • Polybius, Histories, 9.10.7
    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 27
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 60.26
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