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ὑπερῷον , Ep. and Ion. ὑπ-ώϊον , τό,
A.the upper part of the house, where the women resided, “παρθένος αἰδοίη ὑπερώϊον εἰσαναβᾶσα” Il.2.514; “εἰς ὑπερῷ᾽ ἀναβάς” 16.184, cf. Od.1.362; ὑπερωϊόθεν φρεσὶ σύνθετο θέσπιν ἀοιδὴν . . Πηνελόπεια from her chamber she heard it, ib.328; approached by a κλῖμαξ, ib.330: so in later Gr., upper chamber or story, Act.Ap.1.13, Supp.Epigr.2.754 (Syria, ii A. D.), POxy.2146.7 (iii A. D.).
2. attic, garret, Ar.Eq.1001, Pl.811, Men.Sam.17, IG22.1638.27; “ἄνωθ᾽ ἐξ ὑ.” Ar.Ec.698 (anap.); of a spare room, Antipho 1.14.
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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