Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ὑπερβολ-ή

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3. excess, “τοῦ μεγέθεος” Archyt.1; opp. ἔλλειψις or ἔνδεια, Pl.Prt.356a, 357a, 357b; “θερμασίης” Hp.Vict.2.65; “ὑ. δισσὴ . . , τῷ ποσῷ καὶ τῷ ποιῷ” Arist.PA668b14; ὑπερβολὴν τῆς ἐπιθυμίας ἔχειν c. acc. et inf., And.3.33, etc.: hence in various phrases, χρημάτων ὑπερβολῇ . . πρίασθαι at an extravagant price, E.Med.232; ἐπέφερον τὴν ὑ. τοῦ καινοῦσθαι pushed on their extravagance in revolutionizing, Th.3.82; οὐκ ἔχον ἐστὶν ὑπερβολήν it can go no further, D.21.119, cf. 25.54; “ἃ μηδὲ πιθανὰς τὰς ὑ. ἔχει” Men.Her.62; so οὐδεμίαν or μηδεμίαν ὑ. λείπειν, Isoc.4.5,110, cf. D.3.25; “οὐδεμίαν ὑ. καταλείπων φιλοτιμίας” SIG545.13 (Delph., iii B. C.); εἴ τις ὑ. τούτου if there is aught beyond (worse than) this, D.19.66, cf. Isoc.5.42; ταῦτ᾽ οὐχ ὑ.; is not this the extreme, the last degree? D.27.38; ὑπερβολὴν ποιήσομαι I will put an extreme case, Id.19.332; τοσαύτην ὑ. ποιεῖσθαι ὥστε . . to go so far that . . , Id.18.190: folld. by a gen., ὑ. ποιεῖσθαι ἐκείνων τῆς αὑτοῦ βδελυρίας to carry his own rascality beyond theirs, Id.22.52, cf. 23.201, And.4.22, Lys.14.38; ὑ. ποιεῖν τῆς τιμῆς to raise the price, Arist.Pol.1259a26; “εἰς ὑ. εὐδαιμονίας ἥκειν” Isoc.11.14; “τοσαύτας ὑ. δωρειῶν παρές χηται” D.20.141; ὑ. ἀνοίας ἔχειν Polystr.p.27 W.

4. with Prep. in Adverbial phrases, = ὑπερβαλλόντως, εἰς ὑπερβολήν in excess, exceedingly; “εἰς ὑ. ἄμεινον” E.Fr.494; “ἀγαθὸς εἰς ὑ.” Antiph.80.11; “ἐς ὑ. ἐκθερμαίνεσθαι” Hp.Vict.2.65: c. gen., “κτήσαιτ᾽ ἂν ὄλβον εἰς ὑ. πατρός” E.Fr.282.6 (v.l. εἰς ὑπεκτροφὴν πάτρας); far beyond, τοῦ πρόσθεν εἰς ὑ. πανοῦργος, i. e. far more wicked, Id.Hipp.939, cf. D.61.33; “ἀναλίσκειν πάντα εἰς ὑπερβολάς” Pl.Ep. 326d:—“ἐξ ὑπερβολῆς” Plb.8.15.8:—καθ᾽ ὑπερβολὰν τοξεύσας with surpassing aim, S.OT1196 (lyr.); “καθ᾽ ὑ. ἐπαινεῖν” extravagantly, Isoc. 5.11; οἱ καθ᾽ ὑ. ἐν ἐνδείᾳ ὄντες in extremity of need, Arist.Pol.1295b18; “αἱ καθ᾽ ὑ. ἡδοναί” Id.EN1151a12; “τὸ καθ᾽ ὑ. τραχύ” Phld.Po.Herc. 994.35; “καθ᾽ ὑ. ἁμαρτωλός” Ep.Rom.7.13: c. gen., “καθ᾽ ὑ. φιλοδοξίας” OGI472.9 (Didyma, i A. D.):—so in dat., “εὐτελὴς ὑπερβολῇ” Men.615; “παχεῖ᾽ ὑ.” Philem.41; “ὑ. ἀγαθός” Arist.HA625a29, etc.

5. preeminence, perfection, without any notion of excess, “δι᾽ ἀρετῆς ὑπερβολήν” Id.EN1145a24, cf. Rh.1367b1, Pol.1284a4; ἡ ὑ. τῆς φιλίας the best and noblest kind of friendship, Id.EN1166b1; but ἡ καθ᾽ ὑ. φιλία, = ἡ καθ᾽ ὑπεροχήν, Id.EE1238b18.

6. overstrained phrase, hyperbole, “ὑπερβολὰς εἰπεῖν” Isoc.4.88; οἱ πρὸς ὑπερβολὴν πεπονημένοι λόγοι ib.11; ὑπερβολὰς εἰπεῖν make strong statements, Id.3.35, D. 27.64; as a figure of speech, Arist.Rh.1413a29, Demetr.Eloc.52, Str.3.2.9; “πρὸς -ὴν εἰρημένος” Id.1.2.33.

7. τὸ καθ᾽ ὑπερβολήν the superlative degree, in Adjectives, Arist.Top.134b24; τιθέναι ὑπερβολῇ ib.139a9; “καθ᾽ ὑ. εἰπεῖν” Id.Cael.281a16.

8. overbid at auction, PPetr.2p.44 (iii B. C.).

II. crossing over, passage of mountains, etc., X.An.1.2.25, Plb.3.34.6, etc.

2. in sg. or pl., place of passage, mountain-pass, with or without τοῦ ὄρους, τῶν ὀρέων, X. An.3.5.18, 4.1.21, 4.4.18; ὑ. τοῦ Ταύρου Wilcken Chr.1 ii 14 (iii B. C.); “αἱ τῶν Ἄλπεων ὑ.” Plb.3.39.10; “αἱ Ἄλπιαι ὑ.” Str.7.1.5; “ἡ κατὰ τὸν Αἷμον ὑ.” D.S.19.73.

III. (from Med.) delay, “τοῦ κακοῦ” Hdt.8.112, cf. Decr. ap. D.18.29, Plb.14.9.8; “[τῆς κρίσεως] ὑ. λαβούσης” PEnteux.65.3 (iii B. C.).

IV. the conic section called hyperbola, because the square of the ordinate is equal to a rectangle with height equal to the abscissa applied to the parameter (as base) but exceeding (ὑπερβάλλον), i. e. overlapping, that base, Apollon. Perg.Con.1.12, Procl. in Euc.p.419F.

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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- Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 332
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- Demosthenes, Against Leptines, 141
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- Demosthenes, Against Androtion, 52
- Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates, 201
- Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1, 54
- Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 1, 64
- Demosthenes, Erotic Essay, 33
- Euripides, Hippolytus, 939
- Euripides, Medea, 232
- Herodotus, Histories, 8.112
- Isocrates, Panegyricus, 88
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- New Testament, Romans, 7.13
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- Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1196
- Strabo, Geography, 1.2.33
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- Xenophon, Anabasis, 3.5.18
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- Polybius, Histories, 14.9.8
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