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ὑποζεύγνυ_μι , pf. ὑπέζευχα Orusap.EM786.5:—
A.yoke under, put under the yoke,
I. of the animals yoked, “ὑ. ἵππονς” Od.15.81; “βοῦς” Hdt.4.69; “ἡμιόνους . . ζεῦξαν ὑπ᾽ ἀπήνῃ” Od.6.73:—Med., “οὑρῆας ὑποζεύξασθαι ἀπήνῃ” A.R.3.841.
b. metaph., subjugate, Orus l. c.:—Pass., submit to, “τῷδ᾽ ὑπεζύγην πόνῳ” S.Aj.24.
2. of the chariot, “ἄρμ᾽ ὐπαζεύξαισα” Sapph.1.9; “ὑποζεύξασθαι τέθριππον” Plu. Cam.7.
II. bring under a class, “εἰς τὸ δουλικὸν ὑ. γένος” Pl.Plt. 309a:—Pass., ὑπεζεῦχθαι ἑνὶ γένει to be brought under one and the same class, Arist.PA644a18.
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 (7):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.69
    • Homer, Odyssey, 15.81
    • Homer, Odyssey, 6.73
    • Plato, Statesman, 309a
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 24
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3.841
    • Plutarch, Camillus, 7
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