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ὑπερφυής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπερφυής ὑπερφυές

Structure: ὑπερφυη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fu/omai

Sense

  1. overgrown, enormous
  2. monstrous, marvellous, extraordinary, extraordinary, great, extraordinarily great
  3. over-much, marvellously, strangely, exceedingly

Examples

  • τὴν μέν γε κιθάραν αὐτήν, ὑπερφυέσ τι χρῆμα εἰσ κάλλοσ καὶ πολυτέλειαν, χρυσοῦ μὲν τοῦ ἀκηράτου πᾶσαν, σφραγῖσι δὲ καὶ λίθοισ ποικίλοισ κατακεκοσμημένην, Μουσῶν μεταξὺ καὶ Ἀπόλλωνοσ καὶ Ὀρφέωσ ἐντετορνευμένων; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 8:5)
  • Ἡράκλεισ, ὑπερφυέσ τι τὸ θέαμα φὴσ καὶ δεινῶσ βίαιον, εἴ γε καὶ Λυκῖνον ἐξέπληξε γυνή τισ οὖσα· (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 1:2)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ τοσοῦτὸν σοί φημι, ὑπερφυὲσ μηδὲν γενέσθαι τότε, μήτε τὸν Αἰάντα οὕτω μέγαν μήτε τὴν Ἑλένην αὐτὴν οὕτω καλὴν ὡσ οἰόνται. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 17:10)
  • "προσδοκήσῃσ δὲ μηδὲν τοιοῦτον ὄψεσθαι οἱο͂ν τῷδε ἢ τῷδε παραβαλεῖν, ἀλλ’ εἴ τισ ἢ Τιτυὸσ ἢ Ὦτοσ ἢ Ἐφιάλτησ, ὑπὲρ ἐκείνουσ πολὺ φανεῖταί σοι τὸ πρᾶγμα ὑπερφυὲσ καὶ τεράστιον ἐπεὶ τούσ γε ἄλλουσ τοσοῦτον ὑπερφωνοῦντα εὑρήσεισ ὁπόσον ἡ σάλπιγξ τοὺσ αὐλοὺσ καὶ οἱ τέττιγεσ τὰσ μελίττασ καὶ οἱ χοροὶ τοὺσ ἐνδιδόντασ. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:5)
  • "οὕτωσ ὁρῶν ὑμῶν ἄρτι τοὺσ μὲν εἰσ τὴν ἀνδρωνῖτιν ἕλκοντασ τὸν Ἔρωτα τοὺσ δ’ εἰσ τὴν γυναικωνῖτιν, ὑπερφυὲσ καὶ θεῖον ἀγαθόν, οὐκ ἐθαύμαζον, εἰ τηλικαύτην δύναμιν ἔσχε καὶ τιμὴν τὸ πάθοσ, οἷσ ἦν προσῆκον ἐξελαύνειν αὐτὸ πανταχόθεν καὶ κολούειν, ὑπὸ τούτων αὐξανόμενον καὶ σεμνυνόμενον. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 12 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. monstrous

Related

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

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