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ὑπερφρον-έω , (ὑπέρφρων)
A.to be over-proud, have high thoughts, “μηδ᾽ ὑπερφρόνει” A.Ag.1039, cf. Plb.6.18.7; “μὴ ὑ. παρ᾽ ὃ δεῖ φρονεῖν, ἀλλὰ φρονεῖν εἰς τὸ σωφρονεῖν” Ep.Rom.12.3: c. dat. modi, to be proud in or of a thing, “πλούτῳ” Hdt.1.199; “τὸν λόγον, ᾧ ὑπερπεφρόνηκας” Pl. Alc.1.104a.
2. c. acc., overlook, look down upon, despise, “ὑπερφρονήσας τὸν παρόντα δαίμονα” A.Pers.825; “τοὺς θεούς” Ar.Nu.226; “πέφυκε ἄνθρωπος τὸ . . θεραπεῦον ὑπερφρονεῖν” Th.3.39; ἑτέρους Aristeas 122:—Pass., to be despised, “ὑπὸ τῶν εὐπραγούντων” Th.6.16.
3. c. gen., think slightly of, “δαιμόνων” E.Ba.1325; “τῶν καθεστώτων νόμων” Ar.Nu.1400; “τοῦ ἐπιτηδεύματος” Pl.Phdr.258b.
II. surpass in knowledge, ὑ. ἱστορίᾳ τὸν δῆμον (v.l. for περιφρ-) Aeschin.1.141: c. acc. cogn., πάντα ὑ. excel in all wisdom, Hp.Ep.17.
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 Timarchus, 141
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1039
    • Aeschylus, Persians, 825
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 1400
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 226
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 1325
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.199
    • New Testament, Romans, 12.3
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 258b
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.39
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.16
    • Polybius, Histories, 6.18.7
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