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οὐρα^νο-μήκης , ες,
A.high as heaven, shooting up to heaven, exceeding high or tall, “ἐλάτη” Od.5.239; “δένδρεα” Hdt.2.138; “στήλη” Lys.Fr.14; “λαμπάς” A.Ag.92 (anap.); Ἄθω οὐρανομήκη (voc.) Xerxis Epist. ap. Plu.2.455d.
2. metaph., οὐ. φωνή, κλέος, Ar.Nu. 357, 459 (lyr.); “κακόν” Arist.Rh.1408b13; οὐ. ποιεῖν τι to exalt it to the skies, Isoc.15.134; “οὐ. σημεῖα τῆς εὐνοίας” Epicur.Fr.183; “διαφορά” Phld. Rh.2.272 S.; “ἐλπίδες” Eun.Hist.p.251 D.
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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    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 92
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.138
    • Isocrates, Antidosis, 134
    • Homer, Odyssey, 5.239
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 357
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 459
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