Sue

I continue to be intrigued by many of the things that are being claimed in this thread. I am not aware that the military use of hupotasso predates its use in rhetoric and medicine. I do know that it can mean to underlie or be an associated thought, to draw up behind as a spatial arrangement, or to be lower, as in a bone in the body being lower than, or attached to another bone.

However, its use in the military, to my knowledge, dates from the Hellenistic era, and not the classical. But I may be missing something here.

We can also see that it simply means “yield” or “give in to” someone who is beneath one in rank.

2 Macc 13.23,

”[King Antiochus Eupator] got word that Philip, who had been left in charge of the government, had revolted in Antioch; he was dismayed, called in the Jews, yielded (???????) and swore to observe all their rights, settled with them and offered sacrifice, honored the sanctuary and showed generosity to the holy place.”

I would be very interested in any examples that anyone has for what is being said.