ὕφεσις
Ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα → I know only one thing, that I know nothing | all I know is that I know nothing.
English (LSJ)
εως, ἡ, (ὑφίημι)
A letting down, slackening, of strings in music, Plu.2.389e; τῆς φωνῆς Antyll. ap. Orib.6.9.5; relaxation, σωμάτων μυωδῶν Gal.19.403; of the pulse, Ruf.Syn.Puls.6.5; lowering, τῶν ἀκοντίων Arr.Tact.38.3. 2 complaisance, ἐπὶ τῶν πραγμάτων Plu. Ant.24; πρὸς τοὺς φίλους Id.2.808c; χάρις . . ὕφεσις ἀκριβείας ἐν δέοντι Favorin. ap. Gell.1.3.27. II = ὑφαίρεσις 111, A.D. Pron.51.5, EM 36.33; ἡ ὕ. τῆς προθέσεως A.D.Conj.247.12. 2 Arithm., subtraction, David Proll.54.20; lowering of numbers, Ph.1.187. III descent in the scale, abasement, Procl. in Prm.p.618 S., Inst.29, al.; joined with ὑπόβασις (q. v.), Aristid. Quint.3.10; κατὰ ὕφεσιν Dam. Pr.34, cf. 69,91; subordination, subjection as a form of relation, Elias in Porph.203.5:—ἐν ὑφέσει· ἐν ἐλαττώσει, Hsch.
