The corpus record

ὑπεκ-τρέπω

upektrepo

turn gradually

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Where it lives

Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Phaedo 1 · 0.46/10k

What it meant

ὑπεκ-τρέπω · hypek-trepō — LSJ

turn gradually, secretly from, turn aside from, decline the task

turn gradually or secretly from a thing, τῶν δʼ ὑ. πόδα S. Tr. 549:—Med., turn aside from, c. acc., Pl. Phd. 108b: c. inf., ὑπεκτραποίμην μὴ οὐ συνεκσῴζειν decline the task of helping . . , S. OC 566.

In the wild

ὑπεκτρέπεται · hypektrepetai Plato, Phaedo 108 (DIORISIS sentence 1106)
ὑπεκτραποίμην · hypektrapoimēn Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 565
ὑπεκτρέπει · hypektrepei Sophocles, Trachiniae 548–549

Where it came from

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