ὑπηρεσ-ία (uperesia)

Where it lives

Apollodorus Against Polycles 10 · 21.83/10k
Against Onetor 2 1 · 10.53/10k
Defense Against A Charge Of Taking Bribes 1 · 7.73/10k
On The Trierarchic Crown 1 · 7.43/10k
De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte 1 · 5.44/10k
Minos 1 · 3.51/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 2 · 2.9/10k
Euthyphro 1 · 1.93/10k
De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Epistles 2 · 1.18/10k
Apology 1 · 1.14/10k
Wasps 1 · 1.03/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ὑπηρεσ-ία · hypēres-ia — LSJ

body of rowers, shipʼs crew, crews, equipment

body of rowers, shipʼs crew, οἵ τε ναῦται καὶ οἱ ἐπιβάται καὶ ἡ ὑ. D. 50.30, cf. 10, 25, al.; ὑ. κρατίστην ἐμισθωσάμην ib. 7; εἶχον κυβερνήτην Φαντίαν . . , παρεσκευασάμην δὲ καὶ τὸ πλήρωμα πρὸς ἐκεῖνον καὶ τὴν ἄλλην ὑ. ἀκόλουθον Lys. 21.10; κυβερνήτας ἔχομεν πολίτας καὶ τὴν ἄλλην ὑ. πλείους καὶ ἀμείνους ἢ ἅπασα ἡ ἄλλη Ἑλλάς Th. 1.143; τῆς ἄλλης ὑ. IG 1(2).98.22; χρεία πλοίων ἐστὶ καὶ τῆς κατὰ θάλατταν ὑ. Plb. 5.109.1: pl., crews, Th. 6.31, 8.1, Isoc. 4.142; pl. of naval equipment, [ναῦς] εὖ ταῖ

II service, all kinds of service, deceptions

generally, service, δουλεία καὶ ὑ. Ar. V. 602 (anap.); ἰατρικὴ ὑ. Pl. Lg. 961e; αἱ σωματικαὶ ὑ. Arist. Pol. 1259b26; μόρια τὰ πρὸς ταύτην τὴν ὑ. (sc. πορεύεσθαι) Id. Juv. 468a19; αἱ ὑ. αἱ ἔξωθεν κινητικαί Id. PA 684b33; τέχναι καὶ γοητεῖαι καὶ ὅλως ὑ. τινές all kinds of service, D. Prooem. 52 (s. v.l., deceptions seems to be the sense); πᾶσαν λειτουργίαν καὶ ὑ. ἐκτελεῖν CIG 2786 (Aphrodisias); παρέχειν τι εἰς ὑ. τινί Pl. Lg. 717c; ἡ ἐμὴ τῷ θεῷ ὑ. Id. Ap. 30a; τίς αὕτη ἡ ὑ. ἐστὶ τοῖς θεοῖς; Id. E

2 the class of servants, attendants, retinue, shop-assistants

in concrete sense, in pl., the class of servants or attendants, Pl. Lg. 956e, Ep. 350a, cf. IG 5(1).1390.98 (Andania, i B. C.): also in sg., retinue, LXX Jb. 1.3, OGI 139.8 (Philae, ii B. C.); of shop-assistants, Sardis 7(1).168 (iv A. D.).

3 service

ὑ. σοι παντελὴς . . κεραμίων ‘a dinner-service’, Axionic. 7.

In the wild

ὑπηρεσίαν · hypēresian Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 434)
ὑπηρεσίαν · hypēresian Aristotle, De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte (DIORISIS sentence 8)
ὑπηρεσίας · hypēresias Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 143)
ὑπηρεσίαι · hypēresiai Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1158a (DIORISIS sentence 2785)
ὑπηρεσίας · hypēresias Aristotle, Politics 1259b (DIORISIS sentence 288)
ὑπηρεσίαν · hypēresian Demosthenes, Against Onetor 2 8 (DIORISIS sentence 21)

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Where it came from

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