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περαίτερος , α, ον, Comp. of πέρα (A),
A.beyond, ὁδοὶ περαίτεραι roads leading farther, Pi.O.9.105.
II. Adv. περαιτέρω, further, μανθάνειν π. E.Ph.1681; ἓν οἷδα κοὐ π. Id.IT247; δεινὰ καὶ π. Ar.Th.705; βουλυτὸς ἢ π. Id.Av.1500; οὐδὲν ὅ τι οὐ ξυνέβη καὶ ἔτι π. Th.3.81; “π. τι λέγειν” Antipho 5.65; “φιλοσοφεῖν” Thphr.Char.23.4.
2. c. gen., τῶνδε καὶ π. A.Pr.249; “π. τοῦ μετρίου” X.Mem.3.13.5; “π. τοῦ δέοντος” Pl. Grg.484c; “π. τόλμης” Plu.Galb.8: abs., π. (sc. τοῦ δέοντος） πεπραγμένα beyond what is fit, too far, S.Tr.663: neut. περαίτερον as Adv., π. ἄλλων beyond, better than others, Pi.O.8.63.
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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