1. Ὑπερβόρεοι · Hyperboreoi — Chantraine
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Ὑπερβόρ-εοι
*uperboreoi
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Where it lives
- Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
- Histories 12 · 0.65/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
2. Ὑπερβόρεοι · Hyperboreoi — Chantraine
3. Ὑπερβόρεοι · Hyperboreoi — Frisk
4. Ὑπερβόρ-εοι · Hyperbor-eoi — LSJ
the Hyperboreans, a people supposed to live in the extreme north, h.Hom. 7.29, Pi. P. 10.30, Hdt. 4.32 sq., Str. 15.1.57.
Adj., τύχη ὑπερβόρεος, prov. of more than mortal fortune, A. Ch. 373 (anap.). (ὑπερβόρειος is a constant v.l. in codd.; but in the poetic passages ὑπερβόρεος is either necessary or at least admissible, as in Cratin. 22, and this form is found in IG 2(2).1636.8.)
In the wild
- ὑπερβορέου · hyperboreou Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 372–373
- Ὑπερβορέων · Hyperboreōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7121)
- Ὑπερβορέους · Hyperboreous Herodotus, Histories 4.13.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4183)
- Ὑπερβορέων · Hyperboreōn Herodotus, Histories 4.13.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4184)
- Ὑπερβορέων · Hyperboreōn Herodotus, Histories 4.32.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4284)
- Ὑπερβορέων · Hyperboreōn Herodotus, Histories 4.32.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4287)
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