2. = ὑπέρβασις I. I. pass, Str.16.2.8, al.
II. transposition, of words or propositions, “παθητικαὶ ὑ.” Phld.Rh.1.198 S., cf. Chrysipp.Stoic.2.83; distd. fr. παρένθεσις, Hermog.Id.1.12; also, = μετάθεσις 1.4, EM3.25, al.
III. delay, postponement, Plb.3.112.4, Sammelb.7404.55 (ii A. D.), POxy.2106.5 (iv A. D.); ὑ. σχεῖν to be put off, Plb.2.51.7; ὑ. ἔλαβε τὸ διαβούλιον ἐπὶ τοὺς δέκα was postponed for the sake of consulting them, was referred to them, Id.18.42.7; “μηδεμίαν ὑ. ποιησάμενος” IG7.2712.62 (Acraeph., i A. D.), cf. 9 (2).517.37 (Larissa, iii B. C.), D.S.16.94, Ph.2.2; ἄνευ πάσης ὑ. freq. in Pap., PTeb.386.23 (i B. C.), etc.:—a usage censured by Poll.9.137:— “εἶναι τὴν ἀναβολὴν ὑπέρθεσιν ἐνεργείας δι᾽ ὄκνον: ὑπερτίθεσθαι δέ τινα μόνον, ἀνεγκλήτου τῆς ὑ. οὔσης” Stoic.3.163.
IV. like ὑπερβολή, excess, extraordinary character, “κατὰ τὴν ὑ. τῆς ἐπιβολῆς” Plb.30.5.10; καθ᾽ ὑπέρθεσιν in an ascending scale, D.S.19.34; μηδεμίαν ὑ. καταλιπεῖν no power of exceeding, Id.17.114; τὸ καθ᾽ ὑ. αὐτοῦ μεγαλομερές his superlative munificence, prob. in IGRom.4.293a ii 53 (Pergam., ii B. C., cf. Wiener Sitzb.214(4).38).
V. Gramm., the superlative degree, Poll.5.106, Phryn.PSp.1 B., Procl. in Prm.p.943 S.
