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ὑπερτίθημι ,
I. the literal senses only in late writers,
1. set higher, erect, “βωμόν” IG14.1020 (Rome).
2. set on the other side, carry over, “τὸ ἄροτρον” Plu.Rom.11; ὑ. τὸ ῥῶ transpose it, Paus. 3.13.5:—so in Pass., A.D.Synt.8.20; of accent, to be shifted, Id.Adv. 189.26:—Med., “ὑπερθέσθαι τινὰ πέραν ποταμοῦ” Plb.21.39.9.
3. c. acc. loci, cross, pass over, “τὸν Ταῦρον” Str.14.4.3:—Med., ὑπερθέσθαι τὴν ἄκραν double it, D.S.13.3: cf. “ὑπέρθεσις” 1.2.
b. shoot over, “ταῖς βολαῖς τὸ τῆς φάλαγγος βάθος” Ael.Tact.4.3.
4. Med., hold over, so as to protect, “παιδὸς ὑπὲρ χέρα θηκαμένα” AP6.280.
II. metaph., παντὶ θεὸν αἴτιον ὑπερτιθέμεν set God over all as cause, Pi.P.5.25.
2. hand over or communicate a thing to another, εἰ . . τοὶ ὑπερετίθεα (Ion. for -ετίθην）“ τὰ ἔμελλον ποιήσειν” Hdt.3.155, cf. 5.32:—so in Med., esp. in order to ask advice, “Γύγῃ τὰ σπουδαιέστερα τῶν πρηγμάτων” Id.1.8; τοῖσι ὀνειροπόλοισι τὸ ἐνύπνιον ib.107, cf. 5.56; “ἐπείτε ἐμοὶ ὑπερέθεσθε [ταῦτα]” Id.3.71, cf. 5.24, 7.18.
3. Med., set oneself above, surpass, exceed, excel, τινὰ ταῖς χορηγίαις, κατὰ τὴν ὠμότητα, Plb.2.63.3, 18.17.3; ἁτὸν ( = αὑτὸν）“ ἐν τῇ πρὸς τὸν δῆμον εὐεργεσία” IG12 (5).860.27 (Tenos, i B.C.), cf. 22.1304.19 (iii B.C.), OGI339.61 (Sestos, ii B. C.): abs., “ὑ. τῇ μεγαλοψυχίᾳ” IG22.1043.65; ὑ. τῇ φιλοπονίᾳ ib.12 (5).129.10, cf. 27 (Paros, ii B.C.):—Act., “ὑπερτ[ιθ]εὶς . . ἑατὸν τῇ πρὸς τὰ κοινὰ σπουδῇ καὶ φιλοτιμίᾳ” Ath.Mitt.35.413 (= IGRom.4.293aii 3, Pergam., ii B.C.).
4. of Time, outlast, outlive, “τὰ τετταράκοντα ἔτη σπανίως ὑπερτιθέασιν” Str.16.4.12, cf. Gal.19.565:—Med., μόνην τὴν νύκτα ὑπερθεμένη having let it pass, Hld.1.10.
5. Med. also, put off, defer, PEleph.11.5 (iii B.C.), etc.; “ὑ. τὴν ἐπανόρθωσιν ποιῆσαι” Epict.Ench.51.1; “ὑ. τι εἰς τὴν ἐσομένην σύνοδον” IG7.2711.49 (Acraeph., i A. D.); “εἰς ἄλλον καιρὸν ἐπιτηδειότερον” Phld.Rh.1.212 S.; “τὴν ταχθεῖσαν ἡμέραν” Plb.5.29.3, etc.: abs., delay, Id.4.30.2, etc.:—Pass., to be put off, Gp.2.49.1.
b. Med., omit, “τὴν ῥαφὴν ὑπερθέμενοι” Paul.Aeg.6.16.
6. Gramm., to be formed as a superlative, “Δαναώτατος ὑπερτίθεται” A.D.Pron.64.12, cf. Adv.168.1.
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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