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ὑπερπετής , ές,
A.flying over or above, “τοῦ τείχους ὑπερπετῆ γιγνόμενα τὰ βέλη” Aen.Tact.32.10; βέλη ὑ. τῶν πρωτοστατῶν φερόμενα darts flying over their heads, Plb.18.30.3, cf. 8.7.3, D.S.14.23; “ὑ. ὄρνεις” Str.5.4.5; “τὸ ὑ.” all that flies over, Id.15.1.38; ὑ. πνεῖν, of winds, Id.15.3.10: metaph., high-flying, Luc.Pr.Im.17.
II. stretching beyond, reaching high, “θωράκια” Plb.8.4.4; “φάλαγξ” outflanking, D.H.9.11: c. gen., “ὑ. τῆς πνοῆς” far above, D.S.17.7; “κορυφὴ -εστέρα τῆς καμήλου” reaching higher, Str.16.4.16; ἐὰν βίᾳ τις τὸ κλύσμα ἐνθλίβων ὑπερπετὲς αὐτὸ ποιήσῃ too high, Mnesith. ap. Orib.8.38.9.
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, 14.23
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 17.7
    • Strabo, Geography, 15.1.38
    • Polybius, Histories, 18.30.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 8.4.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 8.7.3
    • Strabo, Geography, 15.3.10
    • Strabo, Geography, 16.4.16
    • Strabo, Geography, 5.4.5
    • Lucian, Pro imaginibus, 17
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 9.11
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