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ὑπερθύριον [θυ^], τό, （θύρα)
A.lintel of a door or gate, Od.7.90; “ὑπερθυρίοις ἀραρυῖαι ἑπτὰ πύλαι” Hes.Sc.271:—in Prose, ὑπέρθυ^ρον , τό, Hdt.1.179, IG12.372.201, 42(1).103 B97 (Epid., iv B. C.), 11(2).145.19 (Delos, iv/iii B. C.), Inscr.Délos 442 B70 (ii B. C.), J.BJ5.5.3, Plu.2.684a, etc.; also in Parm.1.12, Herod.2.65 (pl.).
II. Lat. hyperthyrum, frieze over the lintel, Vitr.4.6.2.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.179
    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 271
    • Homer, Odyssey, 7.90
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 5.5.3
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