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ὑποτύπ-ωσις [υ^], εως, ἡ,
A.sketch, outline, Str.2.5.18, Ph.2.12, Anon. Lond.7.17, Hermog.Prog.6, Poll.7.128; ὑ. ἕνεκα συγγράμματος draft for a book, Gal.15.760; as Empiric term, Id.8.709, al.; opp. ἐξεργασία, Plot.6.3.7; ὑπογραφάς τε καὶ ὑποτυπώσεις, opp. ὅρους, Stoic.2.76: αἱ Ὑποτυπώσεις was the name given by Sextus Empiricus to his Outlines of the Pyrrhonic Philosophy, cf. D.L.9.78, Gal.Libr. Propr.Praef.: Proclus calls one of his works ἡ ὑ. τῶν ἀστρονομικῶν ὑποθέσεων, Hyp.7.50.
2. model, pattern, 1 Ep.Ti.1.16, 2 Ep.Ti.1.13; “εἰς ὑποτύπωσιν ἀρετῶν” Phld.Mus.p.77 K.
3. a Rhet. figure, by which a matter was vividly sketched in words, Quint.Inst.9.2.40.
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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