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ὑψόθεν?

Adverb; Transliteration: hypsothen

Principal Part: ὑψόθεν

Etym.: ὕψος

Sense

  1. from on high, from aloft, from above
  2. high, aloft, on high
  3. above, over

Examples

  • ἡ δὲ φιλοξείνων θαλάμων κληῖδας ἀνεῖσα ἐξαπίνης Ἑλένη μετεκίαθε δώματος αὐλὴν καὶ θαλερῶν προπάροιθεν ὀπιπεύουσα θυράων ὡς ἴδεν, ὣς ἐκάλεσσε καὶ ἐς μυχὸν ἤγαγεν οἴκου καί μιν ἐφεδρήσσειν νεοπηγέος ὑψόθεν ἕδρης ἀργυρέης ἐπέτελλε: (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1121)
  • φράζεσθαι δ, εὖτ ἂν γεράνου φωνὴν ἐπακούσῃς ὑψόθεν ἐκ νεφέων ἐνιαύσια κεκληγυίης: (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 51:1)
  • τοῖος γάρ κε μέγας ὑπὸ δοῦπος ὀρώρει τῆς μὲν ἐρειπομένης, τοῦ δ ὑψόθεν ἐξεριπόντος: (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 67:9)
  • λυγρὸν δὲ πήδημ ἐς τράχηλον ὑψόθεν πεσὼν ἀνοίκτως, πνεῦμ ἀπορρήξεις σέθεν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 5:7)
  • ὑψοῦ δὲ θάσσων ὑψόθεν χαμαιριφὴς πίπτει πρὸς οὖδας μυρίοις οἰμώγμασιν Πενθεύς: (Euripides, episode, lyric 5:14)

Synonyms

  1. from on high

  2. high

  3. above

Related

명사

형용사

동사

부사

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

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