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ὑπεκ-τίθεμαι

upektithemai

bring, to a place of safety, pueros

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Where it lives

Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant

ὑπεκ-τίθεμαι · hypek-tithemai — LSJ

bring, to a place of safety, pueros, in Graeciam

bring oneʼs property to a place of safety, of persons or things which one removes from the dangers of war, ἔστʼ ἂν αὐτοὶ τέκνα τε καὶ τοὺς οἰκέτας ὑπεκθέωνται Hdt. 8.4, cf. 41, Th. 1.89; ἐκ χερῶν κλέψασʼ Ὀρέστην τῶν ἐμῶν ὑπεξέθου S. El. 297; ὃν ἔξω δωμάτων ὑπεξέθου E. Andr. 69; ὑπεκθέμενοι παιδας ἐς Σαλαμῖνα Lys. 2.34; ὑ. τὰ χρήματα X. Cyr. 6.1.26; τοῖς ὑπεκτεθημένοις (sic) τὰ βοσκήματα διὰ τὸν πόλεμον BCH 54.269 (Rhamnus, iii B. C.); pueros ὑπεκθέμενος in Graeciam, Cic. Att. 7.17.4, cf. OGI 437

II deposit for re-exportation

deposit for re-exportation, εἰ δέ τί κα . . ὑπέχθηται (Cret. for ὑπέκ-θηται) GDI 5040.21; cf. ὑπεκθέσιμος.

III expose, bring forth

Act. -τίθημι, expose a new-born child, Lib. Decl. 34.14: in Med. simply, bring forth, γεννᾶν καὶ ὑ. τὸν τόκον Jul. Or. 4.145a.

In the wild

ὑπεκτιθέμενοι · hypektithemenoi Herodotus, Histories 5.65.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5774)
ὑπεκθέσθαι · hypekthesthai Herodotus, Histories 8.41.2 (DIORISIS sentence 8670)
ὑπεξέθου · hypexethou Sophocles, Electra 296–297
ὑπεξέθεντο · hypexethento Thucydides, History 1.89.3 (DIORISIS sentence 562)
ὑπεκτίθοιτο · hypektithoito Xenophon, Cyropaedia 6.1.26 (DIORISIS sentence 3061)

Where it came from

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