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ὑπῆρχε (hyperche)

ὑπῆρχε is an Ancient Greek form of ὑπάρχω, meaning “begin; be at hand; exist”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 149 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.90.1: … ῖχος ἔχοντα, τὸ δὲ πλέον τῶν ξυμμάχων ἐξοτρυνόντων καὶ φοβουμένων τοῦ τε ναυτικοῦ αὐτῶν τὸ πλῆθος, ὃ πρὶν οὐχ ὑπῆρχε, καὶ τὴν ἐς τὸν Μηδικὸν πόλεμον τόλμαν γενομένην.

Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.9.4: μετὰ δὲ τοὺς Αἰγυπτίους Φίλιππός τε καὶ Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Φιλίππου κεῖνται· τούτοις μείζονα ὑπῆρχέ πως ἢ ἄλλου πάρεργα εἶναι λόγου. τοῖς μὲν οὖν ἀπʼ Αἰγύπτου τιμῇ τε ἀληθεῖ καὶ εὐεργέταις οὖσι γεγόνασιν αἱ δω …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 5.19: Υπῆρχε δὲ τὴν γνώμην πρὸς μὲν τοὺς ἄλλους φιλοτιμότατός τε καὶ εὐεργετικώτατος, πρὸς δὲ τοὺς ὑπηκόους ἐπαχθής τε καὶ …

All forms of ὑπάρχω (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.