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ὑπερβα^τ-ός , ή, όν, later ός, όν (v. infr.),
A.that can be passed or crossed, scaleable, of a wall, Th.3.25, PEnteux. 13.5 (iii B. C.); accessible to trespassers, PFay.110.9 (i A. D.); “ἐξ ὑπερβατῶν” PRyl.138.16 (i A. D.).
2. transposed, of words, “ὑπερβατὸν δεῖ θεῖναι . . τὸ "ἀλαθέως"” Pl.Prt.343e; “σύνθεσις ὀνομάτων ὑπερβατή” Arist.Rh.Al.1435a37; νοήσεις ὑπερβατοί thoughts expressed in inverted phrases, D.H.Th.52. Adv. “-τῶς” in inverted order, Arist.Rh. Al.1438a28, Str.8.3.10, 8.6.7; so “δι᾽ ὑπερβατοῦ” D.H.Th.31; cf. foreg.
3. Subst. -τός, ὁ, name of a βρόχος, Heraclasap.Orib. 48.18.1.
II. Act., going beyond, τῶνδ᾽ ὑπερβατώτερα going far beyond these, A.Ag.428 (lyr.); extravagant, “ἐνύπνια” Arist.Div.Somn. 463b1. Adv. -τῶς miraculously, “δημιουργεῖται” Hp. de Arte 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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Plato, Protagoras, 343e
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.25
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 428
    • Strabo, Geography, 8.3.10
    • Strabo, Geography, 8.6.7
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydide, 31
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydide, 52
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