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ὑπερορία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπερορία

Structure: ὑπερορι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: v. u(pero/rios.

Sense

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

  • οἱ μὲν οὖν ἐπὶ τῶν ἀρχαίων χρόνων καὶ τὰ κατὰ πόλιν καὶ τὰ ἔνδημα καὶ τὰ ὑπερόρια συνεχῶσ ἦρχον· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 3 248:3)
  • ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἀφῃρέθημεν τὰ ἐν τῇ ὑπερορίᾳ κτήματα, ἐν δὲ τῇ Ἀττικῇ ὁ πατήρ μοι οὐδὲν κατέλιπεν, ἀναγκάζομαι νῦν ἐπιδημήσασ τῷ σώματι ἐργαζόμενοσ τὰ ἐπιτήδεια πορίζεσθαι. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 8 2:3)
  • γιγνομένων δὲ τούτων ἐν Ῥώμῃ, καὶ τὰ ὑπερόρια πάντα πολέμοισ διὰ τήνδε τὴν στάσιν ἐδονεῖτο· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 7 1:1)
  • ἐνέμοντο δὲ ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν αἱ τοῦ Νηλέωσ βοῦσ ἐν τῇ ὑπερορίᾳ τὰ πολλά· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 36 7:1)
  • θαυμάσαι δ’ ἄν τισ ἐν τῇ γῇ τῇ Ἠλείᾳ τήν τε βύσσον, ὅτι ἐνταῦθα μόνον, ἑτέρωθι δὲ οὐδαμοῦ τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ φύεται, καὶ ὅτι ἐν τῇ ὑπερορίᾳ καὶ οὐκ ἐντὸσ τῆσ χώρασ αἱ ἵπποι σφίσιν ἐκύισκον ἐκ τῶν ὄνων. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 5 4:1)

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

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