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Lysis
Plato · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordHypopsia means suspicion; a misgiving about an apparent result.
- In LysisA very strange suspicion interrupts Socrates’ pleasure at having caught the answer.
- Reading contextBoth occurrences separate shared confidence from adequate examination; an attractive agreement remains open to scrutiny.
- A place to readThe Greek example means “A very strange suspicion came in.”
- English renderings
- Suspicion; a misgiving about an apparent result
Meaning
Suspicion; a misgiving about an apparent result.
Grammatical category: feminine noun.
Use in the book
A very strange suspicion interrupts Socrates’ pleasure at having caught the answer. Its content is specified: what they have agreed may not be true. The noun thus names the impulse to reopen inquiry rather than a settled counterargument.
The cognate verb ὑποπτεύω already appears at 214e, when Socrates is troubled by the proposed friendship of the good. Both occurrences separate shared confidence from adequate examination; an attractive agreement remains open to scrutiny.