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ὕπαιθρ-ος , ον, = foreg., [κοίτη] Hp.Acut.45; ἱππεῖς καὶ στρατιῶται, i.e. encamped, opp. κάτοικοι, OGI229.14 (Smyrna, iii B.C.);
A.ἔδοξεν Ἀθηναίων τοῖς τεταγμένοις ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι . . καὶ τοῖς ὑπαίθροιςIG22.1304.3 (iii B.C.); “παραχειμασίαPlb.3.87.2; “δυνάμειςId.1.82.14, cf. PCair.Zen.545.5 (iii B.C.), PMich.Zen.90.3 (iii B.C.), PTeb.722.11 (ii B.C.); “τὰ κτήνη μου . ἐστινPEnteux.11.2 (iii B.C.); “ἀγῶνεςPhld.Rh.2.108S.; “πόλεμοιD.H.6.22; “ὕπαιθρον ὕλην λεῖπεBabr.12.14.
2. public, open,. πράξεσιPlu.Cat.Ma.16; “παραφροσύνην .Id.Agis2.
II. as Subst., ὕπαιθρον, τό, open enclosure, IG22.1035.47, Luc.Symp.20; ἐν ὑπαίθρῳ in the open air, Antipho 5.11, X.Mem.2.1.6, Oec.7.19: metaph., εἰς ὕπαιθρον into the public view, into the daylight, πρῶτον εἰς . ἐξεληλυθώς, of a youth, Pib.10.3.4; “εἰς . ἕλκειν τινάPlu.2.501d; “τὴν αὑτῶν ἀμαθίαν εἰς . ἄγουσιErot.Prooem.
2. in military language, from Plb. downwds., τὰ . the field, the open country, opp. fortified places, “τῶν . ἀντιποιεῖσθαι1.12.4, 1.30.6; “μάχεσθαι ἐν τοῖς .18.3.4; ἐκχωρεῖν τῶν . retire from the open country, and shut themselves up in the towns, 9.3.6; “ ἐν ὑπαίθροις οἰκονομία6.12.5.
4. open to the sky, Lat. hypaethros, aedificia, ambulationes, Vitr.1.2.5, 5.9.5; hypaethros (sc. ϝαός), a temple with an open skylight, Id.3.2.1. This form is not used by Att. writers except in the phrase ἐν ὑπαίθρῳ; the form employed by them in Adj. sense is always ὑπαίθριος; v. X.Oec.7.20, where αἱ ἐν τῷ ὑπαίθρῳ ἐργασίαι are synon. with ὑπαίθρια ἔργα.
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