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ὑπέχειν (hypechein)

ὑπέχειν is an Ancient Greek form of ὑπέχω, meaning “hold under; submit to”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 56 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Aristides and Marcus Cato 3.6: … πολλὴ καὶ ἄπορος πενίᾳ τοὺς μέν εἰς ἀγυρτικοὺς κατέβαλε πίνακας, τοὺς δὲ δημοσίῳ τὰς χεῖρας ἐράνῳ διʼ ἔνδειαν ὑπέχειν ἠνάγκασεν, οὐδενὶ δὲ λαμπρὸν οὐδέν οὐδʼ ἄξιον ἐκείνου τοῦ ἀνδρὸς φρονῆσαι παρέσχεν.

All forms of ὑπέχω (conjugation table)

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.