# ὑπάγω
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From ὑπο- (hupo-, “beneath”) +‎ ἄγω (ágō, “to lead”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hy.pá.ɡɔː/ → /yˈpa.ɣo/ → /iˈpa.ɣo/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /hy.pá.ɡɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /(h)yˈpa.ɡo/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /yˈpa.ɣo/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /yˈpa.ɣo/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /iˈpa.ɣo/

### Verb

ῠ̔πᾰ́γω • (hupágō)
* (transitive)
** to lead or bring under
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.148
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.261
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 6.73
*** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 353
*** to bring under one's power
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.106
**** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, pro Merc. Cond. 3
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.46
**** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 18.1
** to bring a person before the judgment seat, to accuse, impeach
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.93
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.82
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 2.3.28
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.70
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 105.4
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 2.3.33
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 2.3.12
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 5.4.24
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.136
*** 458 BCE, Euripides, Electra 1155
*** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Runaways 11
** to lead slowly on, to lead on by degrees, by deceit
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cynegeticus 5.15
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.94
*** 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 505
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.6.37
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.2.8
*** 399 BCE, Plato, Euthyphro 14C
*** 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 826
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 105.4
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 9.8.6
*** 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 428
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 100D
*** 341 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Chersonese 62
*** 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 906
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.1.18
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 82B
*** 346 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Peace 10
*** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 25.23
*** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 188
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Conon 19
** to take away from under, withdraw
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.163
*** 450 BCE – 350 BCE, Archippus, Hercules Getting Married 3
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.76
*** to draw off
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.127
*** to purge the bowels
**** 1 CE – 100 CE, Aretaeus, De Curatione Acutorum Morborum 1.10
* (intransitive)
** to go slowly away, draw off, withdraw, retire
*** 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 921
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.120–122
*** 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1017
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.126
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 9.44.3
** to go slowly forwards, draw on
*** 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 53
*** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1298
*** 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 174
*** 446 BCE – 411 BCE, Eupolis, Dippers 2
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.4.48
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.2.16
** (medicine, of the bowels) to be open
*** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Collected Works 396.27
** to sink down, squat
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 5.2.6

#### Derived terms

* ὕπᾰξῐς (húpaxis)

#### Descendants

* Byzantine Greek: πάγω (págō), ὑπαγαίνω (hupagaínō)
** Greek: πάω (páo), πηγαίνω (pigaíno)

### Further reading

* “ὑπάγω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ὑπάγω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ὑπάγω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ὑπάγω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ὑπάγω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* G5217 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible