ὑποβάς (hypobas)

ὑποβάς is an Ancient Greek form of ὑποβαίνω, meaning “stand under; stood on”. It is the active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.2.52: … ησιν ὡς ἦν μὲν Μέτωνος υἱός, εἰς δὲ Θουρίους αὐτὸν νεωστὶ παντελῶς ἐκτισμένους 〈ὁ〉 Γλαῦκος ἐλθεῖν φησιν. εἶθʼ ὑποβάς· οἱ δʼ ἱστοροῦντες, ὡς πεφευγὼς οἴκοθεν εἰς τὰς Συρακούσας μετʼ ἐκείνων ἐπολέμει πρὸς Ἀθηνάους ἐμοί 〈γε〉 τελέ …

Lucian of Samosata, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit 14: … άμματος. ὁρᾷς ὡς ἐμμελὴς ἡ ἀρχὴ καὶ περὶ πόδα τῇ ἱστορίᾳ καὶ τῷ τοιούτῳ εἴδει τῶν λόγων πρέπουσα; εἶτα μικρὸν ὑποβὰς Ἀχιλλεῖ μὲν τὸν ἡμέτερον ἄρχοντα εἴκαζε, Θερσίτῃ δὲ τὸν τῶν Περσῶν βασιλέα, οὐκ εἰδὼς ὅτι ὁ Ἀχιλλεὺς ἀμείνων …

All forms of ὑποβαίνω (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.