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ὑπʼ (hyp)

ὑπʼ is an Ancient Greek form of ὑπό, meaning “under, by (+gen./dat./acc.)”. It is the preposition.

Found 4,527 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.7: δημόθεν οἰοπέδιλον, ὑπʼ ἐννεσίῃσι δαμῆναι.

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.8.2: καταστάντος δὲ τοῦ Μίνω ναυτικοῦ πλωιμώτερα ἐγένετο παρ’ ἀλλήλους (οἱ γὰρ ἐκ τῶν νήσων κακοῦργοι ἀνέστησαν ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ, ὅτεπερ καὶ τὰς πολλὰς αὐτῶν κατῴκιζε),

Euripides, The Trojan Women 1021: καὶ προσκυνεῖσθαι βαρβάρων ὕπʼ ἤθελες·

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.