A.wanton violence, arising from the pride of strength or from passion, insolence, freq. in Od., mostly of the suitors, “μνηστήρων, τῶν ὕ. τε βίη τε σιδήρεον οὐρανὸν ἵκει” 15.329, 17.565; “μνηστῆρες ὑπέρβιον ὕ. ἔχοντες” 1.368, 4.321; “λίην γὰρ ἀτάσθαλον ὕ. ἔχουσι” 16.86, cf.Alc.Supp.27.10; “ὕβρει εἴξαντες” Od.14.262, 17.431; θεοὶ . . ἀνθρώπων ὕβριν τε καὶ εὐνομίην ἐφορῶντες ib.487; “δίκη ὑπὲρ ὕβριος ἴσχει” Hes. l.c., cf. Archil.88, IG12.394 (vi B. C.), 42(1).122.98 (Epid., iv B. C.); joined with ὀλιγωρίη, Hdt.1.106; “δυσσεβίας μὲν ὕβρις τέκος” A.Eu.533 (lyr.); “ἐπιθυμίας . . ἀρξάσης ἐν ἡμῖν τῇ ἀρχῇ ὕ. ἐπωνομάσθη” Pl.Phdr. 238a; in Poets freq. joined with κόρος (v. κόρος (A) 2): predicated of actions, “ἆρ᾽ οὐχ ὕβρις τάδ᾽;” S.OC883; “ταῦτ᾽ οὐχ ὕβρις δῆτ᾽ ἐστίν;” Ar.Nu.1299, cf. Ra.21, Pl.886; “ὕβρις τάδ᾽ ἐστί, κρείσσω δαιμόνων εἶναι θέλειν” E.Hipp.474; ὕβρει in wantonness or insolence, S.El.881, Pl.Ap.26e; “ἐφ᾽ ὕβρει” E.Or.1581, D.21.38, PCair.Zen.462.9 (iii B. C.), etc.; “δι᾽ ὕβριν” D.21.42; “διὰ τὴν ὕ.” X.HG2.2.10; “πρὸς ὕβριν” Plu. Alc.37, etc.
3. of animals, violence, Hdt.1.189; “ὕβρις ὀρθία κνωδάλων” Pi.P.10.36, cf. N.1.50 (v. “ὑβρίζω” 1.2); “ἡ ἐκ τοῦ χαλινοῦ ὕ.” D.Chr.63.5.
II. = ὕβρισμα, an outrage (though it is freq. difficult to separate this concrete sense from the abstract), Il.1.203, 214; “ὕβριν τεῖσαι” Od. 24.352; “ὑπὸ γυναικὸς ἄρχεσθαι ὕ. ἐσχάτη” Democr.111, cf. Xenoph.1.17: sts., like ὑβρίζω, folld. by a Prep., Ἥρας μητέρ᾽ εἰς ἐμὴν ὕβρις her outrage towards . . , E.Ba.9; ἡ κατ᾽ Ἀργείων (-ους codd.Priscian.) “ὕ.” S.Fr.368; “ἡ πρὸς τοὺς δημότας ὕ.” Hdn.2.4.1: c. gen. objecti, ὕ. τινός towards him, Id.1.8.4, etc.: pl., wanton acts, outrages, Hes.Op.146, E.Ba.247, HF741, Pl.Lg.884a, etc.:—for ὕβριν ὑβρίζειν, cf. “ὑβρίζω” 11.2.
2. an outrage on the person, esp. violation, rape, Pi.P.2.28, Lys. 1.2, etc.; “παίδων ὕβρεις καὶ γυναικῶν αἰσχύνας” Isoc.4.114, cf. Plb.6.8.5; “τὴν ὕ. τὴν εἰς τὸ ἑαυτοῦ σῶμα” Aeschin.1.116; τὴν τοῦ σώματος ὕβριν πεπρακώς ib.188; so τὸ σῶμα ἐφ᾽ ὕβρει πεπρακώς ib.29; “γυναῖκας ἤγαγε δεῦρ᾽ ἐφ᾽ ὕβρει” D.19.309; “γυναικῶν ὕβρεις ἢ εἰς αὑτοὺς ἢ εἰς υἱεῖς” Arist.Rh.1373a35.