ὑποστόρνυμι · hypostornymi — LSJ
spread, lay, or strew under, esp. of bed-clothes, ἡ μὲν δέμνιʼ ἄνωγεν ὑποστορέσαι δμῳῇσιν Od. l.c.; ὑποστρώσεις τρίκλινον Amphis 46; προσκεφάλαια ὑποστρῶσαι Thphr. Char. 2.11 (so in Med., ὑποστόρεσαι . . τῆς ὀριγάνου strew me some of it under, Ar. Ec. 1030, cf. Nic. Th. 63); λέκτρα ὑποστρῶσαί τινι make his bed for a man, i. e. serve him as a wife, E. l.c.; ὑπεστρώννυον τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτῶν ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ Ev.Luc. 19.36: abs., make a bed, οὔκουν ὑποστορεῖτε μαλακῶς τῷ κυνί; Eub. l.c., cf. Phan.Hist. l.c.:—P
metaph., κέρδεσιν χεῖρας ὑ., of the action of the hand in receiving money, APl. 16.272 (Leont.); γαλήνην ὑ. ταῖς τριήρεσιν Them. Or. 10.133b; ὑδατὶς οὐσία τίς ἐστι . . ὑπεστρωμένη τῷ . . δέρματι Paul.Aeg. 6.14.
bestrew with a thing, ἅλω οἰνάροις Babr. l.c.
metaph. in pf. Pass., to be subject to . . , τῶν τοῖς θεοῖς κλήρων ὑπεστρωμένων Dam. Pr. 398, cf. Procl. Inst. 132: so in Act., subject, πάντα -στρώσαντες ἑαυτοῖς ib. 121.