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Ὑπερβόρεοι

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὑπερβόρεοι

Etym.: Bore/as

Sense

  1. the Hyperboreans, people in the extreme north, more than mortal

Examples

  • εἰ δὲ εἰσὶ ὑπερβόρεοι τινὲσ ἄνθρωποι, εἰσὶ καὶ ὑπερνότιοι ἄλλοι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 36 2:3)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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