A.bend the knees under one, sink down, Hld.7.7, Nonn.D.43.47; ὑ. τινί bow the knee before . . , ib.47. 627; “ἄρνες ταῖς μητράσιν ὑποκλάσαντες τὴν θηλὴν ἔσπασαν” Longus 3.13 (ὑ. αὑτοὺς codd.); ὑπώκλασε γαῖα χανοῦσα (in an earthquake) Epic. in BKT5(1) p.85 (iv B. C.): metaph. of an expiring lamp, AP 5.278 (Paul. Sil.); of a declining fever, Paul.Aeg.2.47; τὰ δ᾽ ὑπείροχ᾽, ὁπανίκα νεύσω, κῦρος ὑποκλάζοισ᾽ the mighty, when I nod, bow down before my power, Hymn.Is.143.
ὑποκλ-άζω ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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