The corpus record

ὑπερορ-άω

uperorao

look over, look down upon

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Where it lives

Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
The Funeral Speech 51-61 1 · 3.98/10k
Funeral Oration 1 · 2.46/10k
Areopagiticus 1 · 2.19/10k
Symposium 2 · 2.1/10k
Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
Machabaeorum II 2 · 1.73/10k
To Philip 1 · 1.14/10k
Judith 1 · 1.14/10k
Panegyricus 1 · 0.93/10k
Memorabilia 3 · 0.84/10k
Josue (cod. Vat.) 1 · 0.75/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ὑπερορ-άω · hyperor-aō — LSJ

look over, look down upon

look over, look down upon, c. acc., τὴν θάλασσαν ὑπερορῶντα Hdt. 7.36.

II overlook, take no notice of, remit

overlook, take no notice of, τοὺς πονηροὺς ὑπερορᾷ Lys. 2.77; τὴν ὕβριν ὑπερεώρακε Aeschin. 1.116; οὐκ ὀλίγα τῶν προσόδων ὑ. remit, OGI 56.16 (Canopus, iii B.C.); διʼ ὄνειρον . . ὑπεριδεῖν τὸ συμφέρον Sor. 1.4: c. part., οὐχ ὑπεροψόμενοί τινας ἀφαιρεθέντας D.H. 5.52.

2 despise, disdain

despise, disdain, ὑπεριδὼν Ἴωνας Hdt. 5.69, cf. Phld. Vit. p.27 J.; λόγους ὑπεριδεῖν Th. 4.62; σφῶν τὸ πλῆθος ὑπεριδών Id. 5.6, cf. 6.11; ὑπερείδετε τὴν ἐμὴν ὁμιλίαν Lys. 8.7; πλὴν ἀρετῆς πάντα ὑ. Pl. Criti. 120e; πάντα τἀνθρώπινα ὑπερεώρα πρὸς τὴν παρὰ τῶν θεῶν ξυμβουλίαν X. Mem. 1.3.4:—Pass., ἡ Λακεδαίμων κακῶς ἤκουσε καὶ ὑπερώφθη Th. 5.28, cf. 7.42; ὑπʼ ἐκείνων ὑπερορᾶσθαι Pl. Phdr. 232d.

less freq. c. gen., ὑπερορῶ τῆς ἀπολογίας Antipho 3.3.4; ὑμῶν D. 19.338; τῶν νόμων X. Mem. 1.2.9; πενίας Gorg. Pal. 32; τῶν μὲν ζῴων φροντίσαι, τῶν δʼ οὕτω τιμίων (sc. τῶν ἄστρων) ὑ. Arist. Cael. 290a32; ὑπερεῖδε τῶν ἀνθρωπείων ἀγαθῶν Luc. Demon. 3, cf. Gal. 6.108,312.

In the wild

ὑπερορᾷ · hyperorai Demosthenes, On the False Embassy Concl.338 (DIORISIS sentence 1209)
ὑπερεωραμένας · hypereōramenas Demosthenes, The Funeral Speech 51-61 2 (DIORISIS sentence 5)
ὑπερορᾶν · hyperoran Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1250)
ὑπερορᾶν · hyperoran Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6194)
ὑπερορῶντα · hyperorōnta Herodotus, Histories 7.36.5 (DIORISIS sentence 7300)
ὑπερεώρων · hypereōrōn Isocrates, Areopagiticus 32 (DIORISIS sentence 54)

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Where it came from

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