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ὑβρ-ιστικός , ή, όν,
A.given to wantonness, insolent, outrageous, of persons, Pl.Cra.396b, etc.; of words, acts, etc., “ἔπος” Id.Phdr.252b; “ὑ. καὶ βάρβαρος ἐπιστολή” Aeschin.3.238; “ὑ. διάθεσις” Arist.Rh.1385b31; ὑ. ἀδικήματα such as proceed from wanton insolence, ib.1391a19; “ὑβριστικὰ καὶ μανικὰ λέγοντες” Pl.Plt.307b; “παθὼν ὑ. καὶ δεινά” D.45.1; “ὃ καὶ -κώτατον συμβέβηκεν” Id.17.23: “τὸ -κόν” an insolent disposition, X.Mem.3.10.5: τὰ Ὑ., name of a festival at Argos, Plu.2.245e. Adv. “-κῶς” Pl.Chrm.175d, X.Cyr.8.1.33 (v.l.), etc.; “-κῶς διακεῖσθαι” Lys.Fr.53.3: Comp. “-ώτερον” D.22.54.
2. metaph., of vines, wanton, luxuriant, Thphr.CP3.15.4.
II. of or relating to an outrage, “διήγησις” D.H.Dem.11.
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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    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 238
    • Demosthenes, On the Accession of Alexander, 23
    • Demosthenes, Against Androtion, 54
    • Demosthenes, Against Stephanus 1, 1
    • Plato, Statesman, 307b
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    • Plato, Phaedrus, 252b
    • Plato, Charmides, 175d
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 8.1.33
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 3.10.5
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, 11
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