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ὑποτίθεσθαι (hypotithesthai)

ὑποτίθεσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ὑποτίθημι, meaning “suggest; put under”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.5.172: Ἐρομένου τινὸς τί ὑποτίθεσθαι δεῖ τῷ υἱῷ, τὸ τῆς Ἠλέκτρας, ἔφη, σῖγα, σῖγα, λεπτὸν ἴχνος. Λάκωνός τινος εἰπόντος ὅτι ὁ πόνος ἀγαθόν, διαχυθ …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 8.25.3: … . ἃ μὲν οὖν ἀπολογεῖσθαί τε περὶ ἡμῶν αὐτῶν εἴχομεν καὶ παραιτεῖσθαί σε περὶ τῶν δημοτικῶν, ταῦτʼ ἐστιν, ἃ δʼ ὑποτίθεσθαί σοι διʼ εὔνοιαν οἱ τιμιώτατοι φίλων ἥκοντες καὶ ὑπισχνεῖσθαι διαλλαττομένῳ πρὸς τὴν πατρίδα, ταυτί· ἐν ᾧ τὸ δ …

All forms of ὑποτίθημι (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.