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ὑποχείρ-ιος , ον, Pl.Tht.198a, Plt.308a; ος, α, ον, Id.Erx.392c, Hdt.5.91: (χείρ):—
A.under the hand, in hand, “χρυσὸν ὅτις χ᾽ ὑποχείριος ἔλθῃ” Od.15.448, cf. Anon. ap. Suid., and v. πρόχειρος.
2. mostly of persons, under any one's hand or control, under command, subject, τισι Hdt.6.33,44; ὑ. εἶναι, γενέσθαι τισί, ib.119, A.Supp.392 (lyr.), X.An.3.2.3, Pl.Lg.683d; ὑποχειρίους ποιέεσθαί τινας make subject, bring into subjection, Hdt.1.106; “ὑποχειρίας παρέξειν τὰς Ἀθήνας” Id.5.91; “ὅταν δ᾽ ὑποχείριος ἔλθῃ” Thgn.363; λαβεῖν τινα ὑποχείριον to get into one's power, E.Andr.736, Lys.4.5, etc.; “ὑ. ἔχειν τινάς” Th. 3.11, etc.; “τὰ ὑ. τέκνα” POxy.1642.5 (iii A. D.); ὑ. τὸν ἵππον ἔχειν keep him 'well in hand', X.Eq.8.12; “τὴν χώραν ὑ. τοῖς πολεμίοις παραδόντα” Lycurg.8, cf. X.Cyr.5.3.13; ὑ. τοῖς ἰητροῖς in the power of . . , Hp.Medic.1; of wild birds, ὑ. ποιήσασθαι keep them in captivity, Pl.Tht.197c; ὑ. τὰς ἐπιστήμας ἔχει ib.198a.
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 (16):
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 392
    • Euripides, Andromache, 736
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.91
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.106
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.33
    • Homer, Odyssey, 15.448
    • Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, 8
    • Lysias, On a Wound by Premeditation, 5
    • Plato, Laws, 683d
    • Plato, Statesman, 308a
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 197c
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.11
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 3.2.3
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 5.3.13
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 8.12
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