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ὑποτείνουσιν (hypoteinousin)

ὑποτείνουσιν is an Ancient Greek form of ὑποτείνω, meaning “stretch under; offer”. It is the 3rd person plural.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate 16: … ῖς πόλεσι κομιούμεθα καὶ τὴν δύναμιν ἀναληψόμεθα πάλιν, ἣν πρότερον ἐτυγχάνομεν ἔχοντες, οἳ δʼ οὐδὲν τοιοῦτον ὑποτείνουσιν, ἀλλʼ ὡς ἡσυχίαν ἔχειν δεῖ καὶ μὴ μεγάλων ἐπιθυμεῖν παρὰ τὸ δίκαιον, ἀλλὰ στέργειν τοῖς παροῦσιν, ὃ χαλεπώτατ …

All forms of ὑποτείνω (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.