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ὑπάτη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπάτη

Structure: ὑπατ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. the lowest note

Declension

First 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

  • οὐ γὰρ ὥσπερ ἐν μουσικῇ τὸ ἴσον ἀπέχει τῆσ νήτησ καὶ τῆσ ὑπάτησ ἡ μέση, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον καὶ ἐν λόγοισ ὁ μέσοσ χαρακτὴρ ἑκατέρου τῶν ἄκρων ἴσον ἀφέστηκεν, ἀλλ’ ἔστι τῶν ἐν πλάτει θεωρουμένων ὡσ ἀγέλη τε καὶ σωρὸσ καὶ ἄλλα πολλά. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 218)
  • οἱ δὲ νεώτεροι τὸν προσλαμβανόμενον, τόνῳ διαφέροντα τῆσ ὑπάτησ, ἐπὶ τὸ βαρὺ τάξαντεσ τὸ μὲν ὅλον σύστημα δὶσ διὰ πασῶν ἐποίησαν, τῶν δὲ συμφωνιῶν τὴν κατὰ φύσιν οὐκ ἐτήρησαν τάξιν· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 32 6:2)
  • περὶ τῶν τῆσ ψυχῆσ δυνάμεων ἐν Πολιτείᾳ Πλάτωνοσ τὴν τοῦ λογιστικοῦ καὶ θυμοειδοῦσ καὶ ἐπιθυμητικοῦ συμφωνίαν ἁρμονίᾳ μέσησ καὶ ὑπάτησ καὶ νήτησ εἰκάσαντοσ; (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 9, section 11)
  • ἡ μὲν οὖν κατὰ τόπον τῶν μερῶν τάξισ εἰσ τὴν τῆσ μέσησ χώραν τίθεται τὸ θυμοειδέσ, τὸ δὲ λογιστικὸν εἰσ τὴν τῆσ ὑπάτησ. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 9, section 1 2:1)
  • οἱ γὰρ ὡσ κυρίαν δύναμιν αὐτῷ τὴν τῆσ μέσησ ἀποδιδόντεσ ἀγνοοῦσιν ὅτι τὴν κυριωτέραν ἀφαιροῦνται τὴν τῆσ ὑπάτησ, μήτε τῷ θυμῷ μήτε τῇ ἐπιθυμίᾳ προσήκουσαν ἑκάτερον γὰρ ἄρχεσθαι καὶ ἀκολουθεῖν οὐδέτερον δ’ ἄρχειν ἢ ἡγεῖσθαι τοῦ λογιστικοῦ πέφυκεν. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 9, section 1 8:1)

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

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