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ὑπερόριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπερόριος ὑπερόριον

Structure: ὑπερορι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o(/ros

Sense

  1. over the boundaries or confines, living abroad, in foreign parts, foreign affairs
  2. the country beyond one's own frontiers, a foreign country
  3. foreign to the purpose, outlandish, out-of-the-way

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)
  • 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)
  • καὶ οὐκ ἠπείλει μὲν οὕτωσ ἀήθη καὶ ὑπερόρια καὶ φόβου μείζω, ἐτελεύτησε δ’ ἐνταῦθα, ἀλλ’ ἀπέκρυψε τοῖσ ἔργοισ τὰσ ἀπειλὰσ, ἄνευ γε τοῦ τι δυνηθῆναι, λέγω δὴ χρήσασθαι τῇ πόλει. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 38:7)
  • 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)
  • 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)

Synonyms

  1. foreign to the purpose

Related

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

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