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ὑπεράκριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπεράκριος ὑπεράκριον

Structure: ὑπερακρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/kra

Sense

  1. over or upon the heights, the highlanders or inhabitants of the Attic uplands
  2. the heights above, the uplands

Examples

  • τῆσ δὲ Μιλησίων χώρησ αὐτοὶ μὲν οἱ Πέρσαι εἶχον τὰ περὶ τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὸ πεδίον, τὰ δὲ ὑπεράκρια ἔδοσαν Καρσὶ Πηδασεῦσι ἐκτῆσθαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 20 2:3)

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

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