ὑποκεῖσθαι
From LSJ
ἐπεὰν νῶτον ὑὸς δελεάσῃ περὶ ἄγκιστρον, μετιεῖ ἐς μέσον τὸν ποταμόν, ὁ κροκόδειλος ἵεται κατὰ τὴν φωνήν, ἐντυχὼν δὲ τῷ νώτῳ καταπίνει → when he has baited a hog's back onto a hook, he throws it into the middle of the river, ... the crocodile lunges toward the voice of a squealing piglet, and having come upon the hogback, swallows it
Greek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)
(see also ὑπόκειμαι): be mortgaged, be assumed as a basis, be assumed as hypothesis, be assumed, be laid down, be laid, be posited, lie in wait for, lie under
Lexicon Thucydideum
subiectum esse, to be situated beneath, 1.93.2,
subesse, to be below, be at the foot of, 3.84.3.
