εως (ἡ) action de laisser retomber ou de se laisser retomber, d’où :
      1 relâchement, détente (des cordes d’un instrument, etc.) PLUT. M. 389 e ; GAL. 19, 403 ; ANTYLL. (ORIB. 93 Matthäi) ;
      2 fig. condescendance, concession, complaisance : ἐπί τινος, PLUT. Ant. 24, au sujet de qqe ch. ; πρός τινα, PLUT. M. 808 c, pour qqn.

Étym. ὑφίημι.

εως, ἡ, (< ὑφίημι) letting down, slackening, of strings in music, Plu. 2.389e; τῆς φωνῆς Antyll. ap. Orib. 6.9.5; relaxation, σωμάτων μυωδῶν Gal. 19.403; of the pulse, Ruf. Syn. Puls. 6.5; lowering, τῶν ἀκοντίων Arr. Tact. 38.3.
complaisance, ἐπὶ τῶν πραγμάτων Plu. Ant. 24; πρὸς τοὺς φίλους Id. 2.808c; χάρις… ὕφεσις ἀκριβείας ἐν δέοντι Favorin. ap. Gell. 1.3.27. = ὑφαίρεσις III, A.D. Pron. 51.5, EM 36.33; ἡ ὕ. τῆς προθέσεως A.D. Conj. 247.12. Arithm., subtraction, David Proll. 54.20; lowering of numbers, Ph. 1.187.
descent in the scale, abasement, Procl. in Prm. p. 618 S., Inst. 29, al. ; joined with ὑπόβασις, Aristid.Quint. 3.10; κατὰ ὕφεσιν Dam. Pr. 34, cf. 69, 91; subordination, subjection as a form of relation, Elias in Porph. 203.5; — ἐν ὑφέσει· ἐν ἐλαττώσει, Hsch.

ἡ, das Herunterlassen, Nachgeben, Plut. Ant. 24, öfter.
Bei den Gramm. die Auslassung, Schol. Ar. Av. 149.