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ὑπογρα^φ-εύς , έως, ὁ,
A.one who writes under another's orders, secretary, amanuensis, PCair.Zen.647.50 (iii B. C.), Plu.Crass.2, Luc.Dem. Enc.44; mihtary secretary, adjutant, PStrassb.105.5 (iii B. C.).
2. person who has drafted or signed a deed on behalf of another, “ὑ. τῶν ὁμολογούντων” PAmh.2.110.24 (i A. D.), cf. PMeyer 13.17 (ii A. D.), etc.; “παρεχούσης ὑπογραφέα ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς καὶ μάρτυρας τοὺς ἑξῆς ὑπογράφοντας” PMasp.23.10 (vi A. D.).
3. at Athens and elsewh., the clerk of the Assembly, = ὑπογραμματεύς (the clerk of the Council being ἀντιγραφεύς), Sch Ar.Eq. 1253 (but in the text (1256), ὑ. δικῶν appears to mean a signer of accusations on behalf of another), cf. IG14.209 (Acrae).
4. = Lat. scriba, Lyd.Mag.2.30.
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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