Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, ὑπερβολή

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2.excess, over-great degree of a thing, Plat.; in various phrases, χρημάτων ὑπερβολῇ πρίασθαι to buy at an extravagant price, Eur.; οὐκ ἔχει ὑπερβολήν it can go no further, Dem.; εἴ τις ὑπ. τούτου if there's aught beyond (worse than) this, id=Dem.; ὑπερβολὴν ποιεῖσθαι to go to all extremities, to put an extreme case, id=Dem.; foll. by a gen., ὑπ. ποιεῖσθαι ἐκείνων τῆς αὑτοῦ βδελυρίας to carry his own rascality beyond theirs, id=Dem.; ἐπέφερον τὴν ὑπ. τοῦ καινοῦσθαι pushed on their extravagance in revolutionising, Thuc.

3.with a prep. in Adverbial sense, = ὑπερβαλλόντως, εἰς ὑπερβολήν in excess, exceedingly; c. gen. far beyond, τοῦ πρόσθεν εἰς ὑπ. πανοῦργος, i. e. far more wicked, Eur.:— καθ᾽ ὑπερβολὴν τοξεύσας with surpassing aim, Soph.; καθ. ὑπ. extravagantly, Isocr., etc.

4.overstrained phrase, hyperbole, id=Isocr., Arist.

II.a crossing over mountains, Xen.

III.(from Mid.) a deferring, delay, Hdt., Dem.

1 ὑπερβολή, ἡ,

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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