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ὑψηλός , ή, όν (also -ός, όν Demetr.Troezen.1 Diels): Comp. and Sup. -ότερος, -ότατος, and irreg.
A.“-έστατος” Paus.5.13.9: (ὕψι, ὕψος): —high, lofty, “θάλαμος” Od.1.426; “πύργος” Il.3.384, etc.; of a highland country, “χώρη ὀρεινὴ . . καὶ ὑψηλή” Hdt. 1.110; “ὑψλὰ χωρία” Th.3.97; and ὑψηλά alone, Pl.Lg.732c; ἐφ᾽ ὑψηλοῦ εἶναι, καθῆσθαι, X.HG4.5.4, Luc. Rh.Pr.6; “ἐν ὑψηλῷ τινι καταστάς” Plu.Eum. 17; “ἀπὸ ὑψηλοῦ κρεμασθείς” Pl.Tht.175d; “ἀφ᾽ ὑψηλοτέρου καθορῶντες” X.HG6.2.29; ἐποικοδομήσαντες ὑψηλότερον [τὸ τεῖχος] Th.7.4. Adv., “-λῶς καθήμενος” Pherecr. 64.
II. metaph., high, lofty, stately, proud, ὄλβος, ἀρεταί, κλέος, Pi.O.2.22, 5.1, P.3.111; “τέχνη θεσπεσία τις καὶ ὑ.” Pl.Euthd.289e; “ὑ. καὶ χαύνη ἐλπίς” Id.Ep.341e; ὑψηλὰ κομπεῖν talk high and boastfully, S.Aj.1230.
2. of persons, opp. δυσδαίμων, E.Hel.418; “ἀφ᾽ ὑψηλῶν βραχὺν ᾤκισε” Id.Heracl.613 (lyr.); “ἐπὶ τοῖς ἐμοῖς κακοῖς ὑ. εἶναι” Id.Hipp.730; “ἐπὶ τούτοις ὑ. ἐξαρεῖν αὑτόν” Pl.R.494d, cf. And.3.7, Aeschin.2.174; [“δαίμονα] ὑ. αἴρειν” E.Supp.555; “τὸ νέον ἅπαν ὑ. καὶ θρασύ” Metrod.Fr.57; “αὑτὸν παρέχειν -ότερον λημμάτων” Luc.Nigr. 25; “ὑ. τῷ ἤθει” Plu.Dio4.
3. upraised, i.e. mighty, “ἐν βραχίονι -λῷ” LXX Ex.6.1, al.
4. of poets, sublime, Longin.40.2; τὰ -ότερα the loftier, sublimer thoughts or language, Id.43.3; ὑ. λέξις, λόγος, D.H.Lys. 13, Plu.Per.5. Adv. “-λῶς” Gal.10.12.
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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