The corpus record

ὑπέρβιος

uperbios

of overwhelming strength

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Where it lives

Theogony 2 · 2.9/10k
Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
Odyssey 8 · 0.92/10k
Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

ὑπέρβῐος · hyperbios — LSJ

of overwhelming strength, might

of overwhelming strength or might, Ἡρακλῆς Pi. O. 10(11).15; δαῖμον, i. e. Apollo, B. 3.37: c. gen., πάντων ὑπέρβιος Pi. Oxy. 408.28.

II overweening, lawless, wanton

mostly in bad sense, overweening, lawless, wanton, οἷος κείνου θυμὸς ὑ. Il. 18.262; ὑ. ὕβριν ἔχοντες Od. 1.368; ὑ. ἦτορ ἔχοντες Orph. Fr. 119: neut. ὑπέρβιον as Adv., Il. 17.19, Od. 12.379, 14.92, 95: regul. Adv. -βίως Sch. A.R. 4.1523.

In the wild

ὑπέρβιον · hyperbion Theogony 139–141
ὑπέρβιον · hyperbion Theogony 897–898
ὑπέρβιον · hyperbion Works and Days 692
ὑπέρβιον · hyperbion Iliad 17.19
ὑπέρβιος · hyperbios Iliad 18.262
ὑπέρβιον · hyperbion Odyssey 1.368

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