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ὕψιστος , η, ον, Sup. without any Posit. in use: (ὕψι, ὑψοῦ):—
A.highest, loftiest, of places, A.Pr.720, A.R.2.1026, etc.; ἐν τοῖς ὑ., i. e. in heaven above, Ev.Matt. 21.9, Ev.Luc.2.14.
2. of Zeus, highest, Pi.N.1.60, 11.2, A.Eu.28; “Ζηνὸς ὕψιστον σέβας” S.Ph.1289: one of the gates of Thebes was called Ὕψισται from his temple there, Paus.9.8.5: of Jahweh. “ὁ θεὸς ὁ ὕ.” LXX Ge.14.18, cf. De.32.8, OGI 96.7 (Egypt, ii B. C.), SIG1181 (Rhenea, ii B. C.), etc.
3. of things, στέφανος, κέρδος, Pi.P.1.100, I.1.51; “κακῶν ὕψιστα” A.Pers. 331,807; “ὕ. ἐν βροτοῖς φόβος” Id.Supp.479.
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, Eumenides, 28
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    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 479
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    • Old Testament, Deuteronomy, 32.8
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