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καθυπέρτερ-ος , α, ον, Ion. κατ- , η, ον, Comp. Adj.: (καθύπερθε):—
A.above, “Σεληναίης” Man.6.604.
II. commonly metaph., having the upper hand, superior, “κ. γίνεσθαι τῷ πολέμῳ” Hdt.1.67: abs., Th.5.14; “κ. τῶν Περσέων γινόμενα τὰ πρήγματα” Hdt.7.233, cf. Th.7.56; θεοῦ δ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἰσχὺς κ. A.Th.226(lyr.); “κ. Ζεύς” Theoc.24.99: c. gen., “πόλις κ. τῶν ἀντιπάλων” X.Mem.4.6.14, cf. Theoc.24.100, etc.: neut. καθυπέρτερον as Adv., = καθύπερθε, Id.2.60 (s. v. l.):— Sup. κ<*>αθυπέρτατος, η, ον, highest, “ἐν τῇ κατυπερτάτῃ τῆς γῆς” Hdt. 4.199.
2. Astrol., prevalent, prepollent, “ἀστέρες” Vett.Val.98.27.
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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