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ὑπερβᾰτ-ός

uperbatos

that can be passed

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Where it lives

De Divinatione per Somnum 1 · 8.34/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Protagoras 1 · 0.56/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant

ὑπερβᾰτ-ός · hyperbat-os — LSJ

that can be passed, crossed, scaleable, accessible

that can be passed or crossed, scaleable, of a wall, Th. 3.25, PEnteux. 13.5 (iii B. C.); accessible to trespassers, PFay. 110.9 (i A. D.); ἐξ ὑπερβατῶν PRyl. 138.16 (i A. D.).

2 transposed, expressed in inverted phrases, in inverted order

transposed, of words, ὑπερβατὸν δεῖ θεῖναι . . τὸ ἀλαθέως Pl. Prt. 343e; σύνθεσις ὀνομάτων ὑπερβατή Arist. Rh.Al. 1435a37; νοήσεις ὑπερβατοί thoughts expressed in inverted phrases, D.H. Th. 52. Adv. -τῶς in inverted order, Arist. Rh. Al. 1438a28, Str. 8.3.10, 8.6.7; so διʼ ὑπερβατοῦ D.H. Th. 31; cf. foreg.

Subst. -τός, ὁ, name of a βρόχος, Heraclas ap. Orib. 48.18.1.

II going beyond, going far beyond, extravagant, miraculously

Act., going beyond, τῶνδʼ ὑπερβατώτερα going far beyond these, A. Ag. 428 (lyr.); extravagant, ἐνύπνια Arist. Div.Somn. 463b1. Adv. -τῶς miraculously, δημιουργεῖται Hp. de Arte 11.

In the wild

ὑπερβατώτερα · hyperbatōtera Aeschylus, Agamemnon 427–428
ὑπερβατὰ · hyperbata Aristotle, De Divinatione per Somnum (DIORISIS sentence 13)
ὑπερβατὸν · hyperbaton Plato, Protagoras 343
ὑπερβατὸν · hyperbaton Thucydides, History 3.25.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1900)

Where it came from

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