The corpus record

ὑπέρφευ

uperpheu

excessively, overmuch

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Where it lives

Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k

What it meant

ὑπέρφευ · hyperpheu — LSJ

excessively, overmuch

= ὑπερφυῶς, excessively, overmuch, φλεόντων δωμάτων ὑ. A. Ag. 377 (lyr.); οὐχ ὑ. θνητὸν ὄντα χρὴ φρονεῖν Id. Pers. 820; τί τὴν τυραννίδα τιμᾷς ὑ.; E. Ph. 550; φέρεις ὑ. τὰς τύχας Id. HF 1321:—Hsch. explains it by ὑπεράγαν; and in Phryn. PS p.89B. ( = Cratin. 359) we have μηδὲν ὑπέρφευ· ἐπὶ τοῦ μηδὲν ἄγαν.

In the wild

ὑπέρφευ · hyperpheu Aeschylus, Agamemnon 373–377
ὑπέρφευ · hyperpheu Aeschylus, Persians 818–820
ὑπέρφευ · hyperpheu Euripides, Heracles 1320–1321
ὑπέρφευ · hyperpheu Euripides, Phoenissae *)ioka/sth (DIORISIS sentence 282)

Where it came from

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