Ancient Greek

Verb

ῠ̔πολᾰμβᾰ́νω • ‎(hupolambánō)

1. I take up
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.24.6

     τὸν δὲ δελφῖνα λέγουσι ὑπολαβόντα ἐξενεῖκαι ἐπὶ Ταίναρον

     But it is said that a dolphin took up Arion and bore him to Taenarus.

   1. I bear up, support
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.72.4

        αἱ δὲ ὄπισθε παρὰ τοὺς μηροὺς τὰς γαστέρας ὑπολαμβάνουσι

        The wheel in the back supports the weight of the belly by the hindquarters.

   2. I take up, seize
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.179.2

        καί μιν, ὡς πλέοντα γενέσθαι κατὰ Μαλέην, ὑπολαβεῖν ἄνεμον βορέην καὶ ἀποφέρειν πρὸς τὴν Λιβύην

        But when he was off Malea, a north wind took him up and carried him away to Libya.

   3. I interpret, take (to mean)
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 338.d

        βδελυρὸς γὰρ εἶ, ἔφη, ὦ Σώκρατες, καὶ ταύτῃ ὑπολαμβάνεις ᾗ ἂν κακουργήσαις μάλιστα τὸν λόγον

        You're a cad, Socrates, and take my statement in the most detrimental sense.

   4. Ι take up, address, accept
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.1.7

        ὁ δὲ Κῦρος ὑπολαβὼν τοὺς φεύγοντας συλλέξας στράτευμα ἐπολιόρκει Μίλητον

        Cyrus thereupon took the exiles [under his protection], collected an army, and laid siege to Miletus.

   5. I assume, suppose
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.55.2

        καὶ αὐτοὺς ὑπολαβεῖν θεῖον εἶναι τὸ ἐπαγγελλόμενον αὐτοῖσι, καί σφεας ἐκ τούτου ποιῆσαι

        The people of Dodona assumed that the message was divine, and therefore established the oracular shrine.

   6. I draw away
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.121.3

        δάνεισμα γὰρ ποιησάμενοι ὑπολαβεῖν οἷοί τ᾽ ἐσμὲν μισθῷ μείζονι τοὺς ξένους αὐτῶν ναυβάτας

        A loan from these enables us to draw away their foreign sailors by the offer of higher pay.

   7. I take away, seize, remove
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.58.2

        καὶ οἱ μὲν ἀνεχώρησαν οἰόμενοί τι ἐρεῖν αὐτόν, ὁ δὲ τοῖς ἐπικούροις φράσας τὰ ὅπλα ὑπολαβεῖν

        They withdrew accordingly, fancying he had something to say; upon which he told the mercenaries to remove their arms.

Conjugation

Other attested forms: Boeotian οὑπολάδδουνθη (third-person plural present active indicative) , late Doric ὑπολαμψοῦνται (third-person plural future active indicative)

Derived terms

Synonyms

• ῠ̔ποδέχομαι ‎(hupodékhomai)

References

• ὑπολαμβάνω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὑπολαμβάνω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ὑπολαμβάνω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G5274”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979