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ὑπόπτερος , ον,
A.winged, “ὄφιες” Hdt.3.107; “πέλειαι” S.Ph.288; νῶτα, δέμας, E.Hec.1264, Hel.618; “τίς ἦν ὁ γράψας πρῶτος . . Ἔρωθ᾽ ὑπόπτερον;” Eub.41.2, cf. Pl.Alc.1.135e; also of a ship, whose sails are wings, Pi.O.9.24, cf. Mimn.12.7, Pherecyd.Syr.2; also “σύμφυτος δύναμις ὑποπτέρον ζεύγους τε καὶ ἡνιόχου” Pl.Phdr.246a; “ὄχημα” Lib. Ep.1457.1.
2. metaph., ὑ. ἀνορέαι soaring spirits, Pi.P.8.91; ἴτω ὑπόπτερον (sc. τὸ νεῖκος) let it pass swift as flight, E.Hel.1236; ὑ. φροντίσιν light-minded, A.Ch.603 (lyr.); δόμον . . κλῇσον ὑπόπτερος fly and shut it, Ion Trag.14 (lyr.): prov., ὑ. δ᾽ ὁ πλοῦτος wealth has wings, E.Fr.420.4.
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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