The corpus record

ὑφήγ-ησις

uphegesis · ἡ

leading, guidance

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Where it lives

Protagoras 1 · 0.56/10k
On the Crown 1 · 0.51/10k

What it meant

ὑφήγ-ησις · hyphēg-ēsis — LSJ

leading, guidance, guiding pattern, sketch, outline

leading, guidance, Hp. Nat.Puer. 18, OGI 267.13 (Pergam., iii B. C.), SIG 827 iii 4 (Delph., ii A. D.); ὑ. ὁδοῦ Poll. 3.95; κατὰ τὴν ὑ. τινός D. 18.151, cf. Arist. Rh.Al. 1420b25, Plb. 10.27.3; γράφειν κατὰ τὴν ὑ. τῶν γραμμῶν by the guiding pattern of lines, Pl. Prt. 326d; sketch, outline of a subject, Gal. Libr. Propr. Praef. (pl.).

II direction

direction, Onos. Praef. 3 (pl.), Iamb. VP 21.96:—in Paus. 7.24.8 ὑπήχησις is prob. cj.

In the wild

ὑφήγησιν · hyphēgēsin Demosthenes, On the Crown 151 (DIORISIS sentence 447)
ὑφήγησιν · hyphēgēsin Plato, Protagoras 326

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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