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ὑπεράγω [α^],
A.lift up over, τὸ πεπονθὸς [σκέλος] ὑπεραγάγωμεν ταύτης (the cross-bar) Paul.Aeg.6.118: metaph., elevate, exalt, “τὴν ἡγεμονίαν εἰς ἄκραν εὐδαιμονίαν” App.BC4.92.
II. excel, surpass, c. gen., Plb. 11.13.5; “τοῖς ὀδοῦσι πάντων” D.S.3.35: c. acc., “ἡ πολιτείη ἡ ὑμετέρη ὑπερῆγε τὰς ἑτέρων” Hp.Ep.27: mostly in part. ὑπεράγων, ουσα, ον, eminent, principal, “αἰχμάλωτοι” SIG588.67 (Milet., ii B. C.); extravagant, excessive, Phld.Herc.1251.5; extraordinary, D.S.13.90, etc.; “ῥώμαις” Id.5.17, etc.; c. acc., τοὺς ἄλλους κατά τι ὑ. v. l. in Id.3.44; “ἐν τᾶσι τοῖς ἔργοις -ων” LXX Si.30.31 (33.23); ἡ ὑπεράγουσα ἐπιστροφή excessive twisting, Ph.Bel.58.21; cf. LXX 1 Ma.6.43, J.AJ15.7.6, al.
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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    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 13.90
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 15.7.6
    • Polybius, Histories, 11.13.5
    • Old Testament, 1 Maccabees, 6.43
    • Old Testament, Ecclesiasticus, 33.23
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 3.35
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