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|mdlsjtxt=fut. ὑποστήσω aor1 ὑπέστησα<br /><b class="num">I.</b> in these tenses Causal, to [[place]] or set under, τί τινι Hdt., Pind.; [[τρεῖς]] σταυροὺς ὑπίστησι plants [[three]] piles in the [[lake]] to [[support]] a [[house]], Hdt.:—metaph., γνώμας ὑποστήσας σοφάς having laid them as a [[foundation]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[post]] [[secretly]] or in [[ambush]], Hdt., Xen.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> Causal also in fut. and aor1 mid. to [[substitute]], τί τινι one [[thing]] for [[another]], Xen.<br />B. Pass., with aor2 act. ὑπ-έστην, perf. ὑφ-έστηκα, ionic [[part]]. ὑπ-εστεώς:— to [[stand]] under as a [[support]], c. dat., Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[sink]] to the [[bottom]], [[settle]], τὸ ὑφιστάμενον the [[milk]], opp. to τὸ ἐφιστάμενον (the [[cream]]), Hdt.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> to [[place]] [[oneself]] under an [[engagement]], [[engage]] or [[promise]] to do, c. inf. fut., ὅσσ' Ἀχιλῆι ὑπέστημεν δώσειν Il., etc.; c. inf. aor., οὔ τίς με ὑπέστη σαῶσαι Il.; c. inf. pres., Hdt.:—absol., [[after]] [[promise]] given, Od.; [[ὥσπερ]] ὑπέστη as he promised, Thuc.:—[[when]] foll. by acc., an inf. may be supplied, τρίποδας οὕς οἱ ὑπέστη (''[[sc.]]'' δώσειν) Il.; ἐκτελέουσιν ὑπόσχεσιν ἥνπερ [[ὑπέσταν]] Il.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[submit]] to any one, τινι Il.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> c. acc. rei, to [[submit]] to, [[consent]] to, ὁ τὸ ἐλάχιστον ὑπιστάμενος who offers to [[take]] the [[least]], Hdt.; ὑφ. τὸν πλοῦν to [[undertake]] it [[unwillingly]], Thuc.; so, ὑφ. τὸν κίνδυνον Thuc.: —[[rarely]] c. dat., ὑφ. ξυμφοραῖς ταῖς μεγίσταις Thuc.<br />b. to [[undertake]] an [[office]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> to lie [[concealed]] or in [[ambush]], Hdt., Eur., etc.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> to [[support]] an [[attack]], to [[resist]], [[withstand]], c. dat., Aesch.; c. acc., Eur., Thuc.:—absol. to [[stand]] one's [[ground]], [[face]] the [[enemy]], Lat. subsistere, Eur., Thuc.

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