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Ὑπερίων [ι_], ονος, ὁ,
A.Hyperion, in Hom. the Sun-god: he always joins ῾γπερίων Ἠέλιος (Il.8.480, Od.1.8, al.), or Ἠέλιος ῾υπερίων (Od. 12.133), exc. Il.19.398, Od.1.24, h.Ap.369, where Ὑπερίων stands alone for Ἥλιος; in h.Hom.31.4 Ὑπερίων is father of Ἥλιος.
II. ῾γπερίων (derived from ὑπὲρ ἰών) is Pythag. name for 9, Theol.Ar. 58.
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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    • Homer, Odyssey, 1.24
    • Homer, Odyssey, 1.8
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 31 to Helios, 4
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 3 to Apollo, 369
    • Homer, Iliad, 19.398
    • Homer, Iliad, 8.480
    • Homer, Odyssey, 12.133
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