The corpus record

ὑπαίθρ-ιος

upaithrios

under the sky, in the open air

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Where it lives

Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Athenian Constitution 1 · 0.61/10k
Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
Anabasis 2 · 0.36/10k
Histories 3 · 0.16/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant — LSJ

under the sky, in the open air, outdoor, in the open, in public

under the sky, in the open air, Pi. O. 6.61; ὑ. κατακοιμηθῆναι Hdt. 4.7, cf. Th. 1.134; of troops, Hdt. 7.119, X. An. 5.5.21, 7.6.24: also of things, λύχνα καίειν ὑπαίθρια Hdt. 2.62; τῶν ὑ. πάγων δρόσων τε A. Ag. 335; ὑπαιθριοις δεσμοῖς πεπασσαλευμένος Id. Pr. 113; ὑ. δρόσος E. l.c.; ὑ. δεξαμεναί, opp. ὑπόστεγοι, Pl. Criti. 117b; ἔστι . . ὑ. τὸ στιππύον ἐρριμμένον PSI 4.404.7 (iii B.C.); ὑ. ἔργα outdoor work, X. Oec. 7.20:—in the open, in public, ὑπαίθριος πεῖραν αὑτοῦ διδούς Luc. Apol. 14.

as Subst., ἐν ὑπαιθρίῳ, = ἐν ὑπαίθρῳ, Gal. 6.94, cf. Hdn. Epim. 140.

In the wild

ὑπαιθρίων · hypaithriōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 334–337
ὑπαιθρίοις · hypaithriois Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 112–113
ὑπαίθριοι · hypaithrioi Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..57 (DIORISIS sentence 700)
ὕπαιθρος · hypaithros Epictetus, Discourses 3.22 (DIORISIS sentence 5063)
ὑπαίθρια · hypaithria Herodotus, Histories 2.62.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1974)
ὑπαίθριος · hypaithrios Herodotus, Histories 4.7.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4141)

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Where it came from

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