A.“-ήσομαι” Luc.Tox. 11:—go back, retire, withdraw, Il.6.107, 22.96; χώρησαν δ᾽ ὑπό τε πρόμαχοι . . 4.505; ὑ. ἐς τὴν Σάμον, εἰς Σικυῶνα, Th.8.79, Is.6.20; “πρὸς αἱμασιάν” Th.4.43; “παρὰ Τισσαφέρνην” Id.8.45; freq. in part., ὑποχωρῶν ᾤχετο, ὑποχωρήσαντες φεύγουσι, Is.4.28, D.22.66; of a lion, “βάδην ὑ.” Arist.HA629b14; of long-horned kine, “νέμεσθαι ὑποχωροῦντας” Id.PA659a20; εἰς τὰ βαθέα ὑ., of eels, Id.HA592a27, etc.
2. c. gen., withdraw from, “ὑ. τῆς χώρης” Hdt.1.207; “ὑ. τοῦ πεδίου” X.Cyr.2.4.24; “τοῦ βίου” IG12(7).395.9 (Amorgos): c. dat., “τὸ δημοκρατικὸν ὑπεχώρησε τῷ ὀλιγαρχικῷ” gave way to, Pl.R.560a; “τὸν ἥσσω τῷ κρατοῦντι ὑ.” Th.1.77; but ὑ. τῷ δαίμονι try to escape from . . , Plu.Brut.40.
b. κἀκεῖνος ὑπεχώρησεν αὐτῷ τοῦ θρόνου he (Aeschylus) gave Sophocles a share of the throne, Ar.Ra. 790 (not surrendered it, which would be παρεχώρησεν); τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους ἐντρέπεσθαι . . ὁδῶν ὑποχωροῦντας making way for them on the streets (not 'retiring from the streets'), Plu.2.237d.
3. c. acc., avoid, shun, “μηδένα ὄχλον [νεῶν] Ἀθηναῖοι ὄντες ὑποχωρεῖν” Th. 2.88; so perh. to be taken in Il.13.476, μένεν . . , οὐδ᾽ ὑπεχώρει, Αἰνείαν ἐπιόντα; cf. Pl.Sph.240a, D.H.6.93, Luc.Tox.36.
II. pass off below, esp. by way of stool, “σάρκες” Hp.Aph.4.26, etc.; “εἰ ταχέως ὑποχωρεῖ τῶν ὑποχονδρίων” Gal.6.56, cf. 253:—in Med., Hp.Aph. 7.67.
III. go on steadily, εἰρεσία ὑπεχώρησεν ἐκ παλαμᾶν the rowing went on, stroke after stroke, Pi.P.4.202.