Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

καθυπέρτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καθυπέρτερος καθυπέρτερᾱ καθυπέρτερον

Structure: καθυπερτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: comp. adj. from kaqu/perqe

Sense

  1. above, having the upper hand, superior

Declension

First/Second 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

  • τέλοσ δὲ συνερείσαντεσ ἐξωθοῦσι τοὺσ πολεμίουσ καὶ καθυπέρτεροι τῆσ ἄκρασ ἦσαν καὶ τὸ φρούριον εἶχον, ἡμέρασ ἤδη διαυγούσησ, ὅ τε ἥλιοσ εὐθὺσ ἐπέλαμπε τῷ ἔργῳ, καὶ παρῆν ἐκ Σικυῶνοσ ἡ λοιπὴ δύναμισ τῷ Ἀράτῳ, δεχομένων κατὰ πύλασ τῶν Κορινθίων προθύμωσ καὶ τοὺσ βασιλικοὺσ συλλαμβανόντων. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 22 6:1)
  • Ζηνὶ δ’ ἐπιρρέξαι καθυπερτέρῳ ἄρσενα χοῖρον, δυσμενέων αἰεὶ καθυπέρτεροι ὡσ τελέθοιτε. (Theocritus, Idylls, 57)
  • τότε οὖν συνοικούντων αὐτοῖσ Ιοὐδαίων γενομένων ἐστασίαζον, καὶ οἱ Σύροι καθυπέρτεροι ἦσαν ὁμολογίᾳ τῇ Ιοὐδαίων πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ φιλοκινδύνων τε ἀνδρῶν καὶ πολεμεῖν προθύμωσ ἐντεταγμένων. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 440:2)

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

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