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ὑπ-οψία , later ὑφοψία (first in PSI4.340.14 (iii B. C.)), Ion. ὑποψίη , ἡ: (ὑφοράω, fut. ὑπόψομαι):
I. of the subject, suspicion, ill-feeling, “ὑποψίην ἔς τινα ἔχειν” Hdt.3.52, cf. Th.4.27, And.1.68; “τὰ ἴχνη τῆς ὑ. φέροντα εἴς τινα” Antipho 2.3.10; “μεστὸς ὑποψίας” Lys.1.17; “ὑ. πρός τινα” D.48.18, Plu.Cic.43; “ὑ. λαμβάνειν κατά τινος” D.29.24; “αἱ τῶν μετεώρων ὑ.” Epicur.Sent.11; “τὸ σκότος ἐν ὑποψίᾳ ποιούμενος” Aeschin.1.10; ἐν ὑποψίαις, δι᾽ ὑποψίας ἔχειν τινά, Plu.Pyrrh.23, Cat.Ma.23; ὑ. γίγνεται, εἰσῆλθέν τινι, Th.2.13, Pl.Ly.218c; ἐς ὑ. καθιστάναι τινά to bring him into suspicion, Th.5.29; “ὑποψίαν πρὸς ἀλλήλους ποιεῖν” Lys. 25.30; opp. εἰς ὑποψίας ἐμπεσεῖν, Antipho 2.2.3.
2. of the object, ὑ. εἶχον were regarded with suspicion, Hdt.9.99; πολλὰς ἔχει ὑ. admits of suspicions, Pl.Phd.84c; ὑ. ἐνδιδόναι ὡς . . Id.Lg.887e; “ὑ. παρέχειν” Th.1.132, cf. Phld.Piet.111; “ὑ. παρέχειν μὴ εἶναί τι” Pl.Mx.247e: Astron., ἡ πρώτη ὑ. the first time the observer suspects he has been a star rising, the first glimpse, Ptol.Alm.8.6.
b. apprehension, “ὁ κατὰ τὴν ὑ. φόβος” Epicur.Sent.34; φόβος καὶ ὑ. Polystr.p.7 W.; “αἱ τῶν μετεώρων ὑ. καὶ αἱ περὶ θανάτου” Epicur.Sent.11.
II. jealous, censorious watch, “ἡ πρὸς ἀλλήλους τῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων ὑ.” Th.2.37.
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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