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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

  • τοὺσ δὲ Οἰνώτρουσ τῆσ τ’ ἄλλησ Ἰταλίασ πολλὰ χωρία οἰόμαι κατασχεῖν, τὰ μὲν ἔρημα, τὰ δὲ φαύλωσ οἰκούμενα καταλαβόντασ, καὶ δὴ καὶ τῆσ Ὀμβρικῶν γῆσ ἐστιν ἣν ἀποτεμέσθαι, κληθῆναι δὲ Ἀβοριγῖνασ ἐπὶ τῆσ ἐν τοῖσ ὄρεσιν οἰκήσεωσ Ἀρκαδικὸν γὰρ τὸ φιλοχωρεῖν ἐν ὄρεσιν’, ὡσ ὑπερακρίουσ τινὰσ καὶ παραλίουσ Ἀθήνησιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 13 4:1)

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

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