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ὑπόγειος , also ὑπόγαιος , ον, (γῆ)
A.underground, subterraneous, “οἴκημα ὑπόγαιον” Hdt.2.100,148 (vv.ll. -γεον, -γεα）“ ὀρύγματα ὑπόγαια” mines, Id.4.200 (v.l. -γεα）; ὑπογαίου (v.l. -γείου）“ βροντῆς” A. Fr.57.10 (anap.); “ὑπόγειον ὕδωρ” Gp.2.6.33; “ὑ. οἶνος” stored in a cellar, Gal.19.95.
II. ὑπόγειον or -γαιον, τό, an underground chamber, Plu.2.770e, Hdn.1.15.6.
III. Astron., under the earth, Man.3.27, Gp.1.7.1; [“ἄστρα] τὴν ὑ. φορὰν ἐνεχθέντα” Placit.1.6.8: “τὸ ὑ.” the nadir, Vett.Val.75.24.—The form ὑπόγεως , ων, cited in Hdn.Epim.208 and Suid., occurs in codd. of Paus.2.2.1, 2.36.7; cf. ὑπογάιδιον.
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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