Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἐξέπεμπε δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τῆσ χώρασ ὁπλίτασ τοὺσ θηρεύσοντασ, εἴ τισ τῶν ἀνακεχωρηκότων ἐντόσ ἐστι τῶν ὁρ́ων ἢ τῶν Ἀθηναίων τισ εἰσ τὴν ὑπερόριον ἀποδημεῖ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 52 3:3)
  • Αὔγην δὲ ἔδωκε Ναυπλίῳ τῷ Ποσειδῶνοσ ὑπερόριον ἀπεμπολῆσαι. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 7 4:7)
  • πόλεμον δ’ ἐξάγοντεσ ὑπερόριον ἢ τῶν ὑπηκόων πράγματα ἐπισκεψόμενοι, τότε καὶ τοὺσ πελέκεισ ταῖσ ῥάβδοισ προσελάμβανον, ἵνα τὸ τῆσ ὄψεωσ φοβερόν, ὡσ κατ’ ἐχθρῶν ἢ δούλων γινόμενον, ἥκιστα φαίνηται τοῖσ πολίταισ ἐπαχθέσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 59 8:1)
  • τὸ μὲν οὖν ὑπερόριον ἀποστέλλειν στρατιὰν καὶ μὴ περιμένειν, ἑώσ ἐπ’ αὐτὴν ἔλθωσι τὴν πόλιν αἱ τῶν πολεμίων δυνάμεισ, ἅπασιν ἐδόκει· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 3 5:1)
  • αὐτὸσ μὲν ἐξ ἁπάντων ἕνα τὸν ἄριστον ἀπέδειξεν, ᾧ τὰσ κατὰ πόλιν ᾤετο δεῖν ἐπιτρέπειν οἰκονομίασ, ὅτε αὐτὸσ ἐξάγοι στρατιὰν ὑπερόριον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 12 1:3)

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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