The corpus record

ὑφέλκω

uphelko

draw away under, draw away underhand

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Where it lives

Ecclesiazusae 1 · 1.31/10k
Wasps 1 · 1.03/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant

ὑφέλκ-ω · hyphelk-ō — LSJ

draw away under, draw away underhand, gently, draw, away, draw away by undermining, I trail, under my feet

draw away under, draw away underhand or gently, ὑ. [τινὰ] ποδοῖιν draw one away by the two feet, Il. 14.477; draw away by undermining, ὑ. παρὰ σφᾶς τὸν χοῦν Th. 2.76, cf. D.C. 66.4; ὑ. κάτωθεν τὸ κλιμάκιον Plu. Ad. princ. ind. 2.781e; ὑ. τοὺς πόδας, i.e. to be slippery, Poll. 1.187: —Med., περσικὰς ὑφέλκομαι I trail Persian slippers under my feet, Ar. Ec. 319:—Pass., ὑφελκέσθω τὸ ὑποπόδιον Heliod. ap. Orib. 49.8.19.

In the wild

ὑφέλκομαι · hyphelkomai Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 315 (DIORISIS sentence 230)
ὕφελκε · hyphelke Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 150)
ὕφελκε · hyphelke Iliad 14.477
ὑφεῖλκον · hypheilkon Thucydides, History 2.76.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1492)

Where it came from

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