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ὑπερπέτομαι , also ὑπερπερισσ-πέταμαι , ὑπερπερισσ-ίπταμαι (qq.v.): Ep. aor. -πτάμην, in Prose
A.“-επτόμην” Arist.HA597a12: aor. Act. “-έπτην” S.Ant. (v. infr.), Ph.1.165: in late Prose also -επετάσθην (v. infr.): (v. πέτομαι):—fly over, of a spear, “ὑπέρπτατο χάλκεον ἔγχος” Il.13.408, 22.275, cf. Od.22.280; of birds, Arist.HA541a28, Philostr.VA2.10: aor. Act., “ἀετὸς ἐς γᾶν ὑπερέπτα” S.Ant.113 (anap.).
2. c. acc., fly over or beyond, “ὁ δ᾽ [λᾶας] ὑπέρπτατο σήματα πάντων” Od.8.192; of birds, “ὑ. τὸ ὄρος” Arist.HA597a12; “ὑπερπετασθῆναι πολλὰ μέρη τῆς οἰκουμένης” D.S.4.51, cf. Luc.Rh.Pr.6: also c. gen., A.R.2.1252, Plu.Pomp.25.
3. metaph., skip over, “εἴδη καὶ γένη” Ph.1.165.
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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