ὑποκεῖσθαι (hypokeisthai)

ὑποκεῖσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ὑπόκειμαι, meaning “lie under; be assumed, be subject”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.71: … ὑπὸ θεοῦ κατεσκευασμένος· ἔμψυχόν τε εἶναι διὰ τὸ κρεῖττον εἶναι τοῦ ἀψύχου τὸ ἔμψυχον, τοῦτο δὲ δημιούργημα ὑποκεῖσθαι τοῦ βελτίστου αἰτίου. ἕνα τε αὐτὸν καὶ οὐκ ἄπειρον κατεσκευάσθαι, ὅτι καὶ τὸ ὑπόδειγμα ἓν ἦν ἀφʼ οὗ αὐτὸν ἐδη …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 2.20·2: … νηματισθείς, καὶ ἀσεβήσας εἰς θεόν, διεπέμψατο πρὸς Ἰωὰς τὸν βασιλέα τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, ἀπαιτῶν πρὸς αὐτὸν ἥξειν, ὡς ὑποκεῖσθαί οἱ ὀφείλοντα, ἀπογόνῳ Δαβὶδ καὶ Σολομῶντος τυγχάνοντι. ὁ δὲ ἀνταπέστειλε μηνύων αὐτῷ ὡς “τὴν κέδρον ἡ ἄκνος ἠ …

All forms of ὑπόκειμαι (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.