ὕπτιον (hyption)

ὕπτιον is an Ancient Greek form of ὕπτιος, meaning “on one's back”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Sertorius 26.5: … οιαν αὐτῶν τῇ θρασύτητι τῆς λαλιᾶς καί τῇ παρὰ τὸ εἰωθὸς ὀλιγωρίᾳ συμφρονήσας, μετέβαλε τὸ σχῆμα τῆς κχισίας, ὕπτιον ἀνεὶς ἑαυτὸν, ὡς οὔτε προσέχων οὔτε κατακούων. ἐπεὶ δὲ ὁ Περπέννας φιάλην τινὰ λαβὼν ἀκράτου μεταξὺ πίνων ἀφῆ …

All forms of ὕπτιος (declension 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.