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|Definition=εως, ἡ, (ὑφίημι) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[letting down]], [[slackening]], of strings in music, Plu.2.389e; τῆς φωνῆς Antyll. ap. <span class="bibl">Orib.6.9.5</span>; [[relaxation]], σωμάτων μυωδῶν Gal.19.403; of the pulse, <span class="bibl">Ruf.<span class="title">Syn.Puls.</span>6.5</span>; [[lowering]], τῶν ἀκοντίων <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">Tact.</span>38.3</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[complaisance]], ἐπὶ τῶν πραγμάτων <span class="bibl">Plu. <span class="title">Ant.</span>24</span>; πρὸς τοὺς φίλους Id.2.808c; χάρις . . ὕφεσις ἀκριβείας ἐν δέοντι Favorin. ap. Gell.1.3.27. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> = [[ὑφαίρεσις]] 111, <span class="bibl">A.D. <span class="title">Pron.</span>51.5</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EM</span> 36.33</span>; ἡ ὕ. τῆς προθέσεως <span class="bibl">A.D.<span class="title">Conj.</span>247.12</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> Arithm., [[subtraction]], <span class="bibl">David <span class="title">Proll.</span>54.20</span>; [[lowering]] of numbers, <span class="bibl">Ph.1.187</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[descent in the scale]], [[abasement]], <span class="bibl">Procl. <span class="title">in Prm.</span>p.618</span> S., <span class="title">Inst.</span>29, al.; joined with [[ὑπόβασις]] ([[quod vide|q.v.]]), Aristid. Quint.3.10; κατὰ ὕφεσιν <span class="bibl">Dam. <span class="title">Pr.</span>34</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">69</span>,<span class="bibl">91</span>; [[subordination]], [[subjection]] as a form of relation, <span class="bibl">Elias <span class="title">in Porph.</span>203.5</span>:—<b class="b3">ἐν ὑφέσει· ἐν ἐλαττώσει</b>, Hsch.</span>