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Ὑπερίων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὑπερίων Ὑπερίονος

Structure: Ὑπεριων (Stem)

Sense

  1. Hyperion, the Sun-god, he that walks on high, the God above.

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • θεαὶ δ’ ἐπιποιμένεσ εἰσίν, νύμφαι ἐυπλόκαμοι, Φαέθουσά τε Λαμπετίη τε, ἃσ τέκεν Ηἐλίῳ Ὑπερίονι δῖα Νέαιρα. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 12 14:4)
  • εἰ δέ κεν εἰσ Ἰθάκην ἀφικοίμεθα, πατρίδα γαῖαν, αἶψά κεν Ηἐλίῳ Ὑπερίονι πίονα νηὸν τεύξομεν, ἐν δέ κε θεῖμεν ἀγάλματα πολλὰ καὶ ἐσθλά. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 12 39:4)
  • "ὠκέα δ’ Ηἐλίῳ Ὑπερίονι ἄγγελοσ ἦλθε Λαμπετίη τανύπεπλοσ, ὅ οἱ βόασ ἔκταμεν ἡμεῖσ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 12 43:1)
  • ὕστερον δὲ βουλομένην διαδόχουσ τῆσ βασιλείασ ἀπολιπεῖν υἱούσ, Ὑπερίονι συνοικῆσαι τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἑνί, πρὸσ ὃν οἰκειότατα διέκειτο. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 57 3:4)

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

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