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ὑπερπετής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπερπετής ὑπερπετές

Structure: ὑπερπετη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. flying over or above, high-flying

Examples

  • ἦν γὰρ ἡ Τυρρηνῶν φάλαγξ κατὰ τοῦτο τὸ χωρίον ὑπερπετήσ τε καὶ οὐκ ὀλίγῳ μείζων τῆσ ἑτέρασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 11 3:1)
  • ὑπερπετὴσ τοῦ λέβητοσ ἐλαιμοτόμει ἕκαστον μετεωρισθέντα· (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 2 6:6)

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

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