ὑπέρ-θεσις · hyper-thesis — LSJ
putting over or across, τῆς χειρὸς ὑπὲρ τὸν στρωτῆρα Apollon Cit. I.
= ὑπέρβασις I. I. pass, Str. 16.2.8, al.
transposition, of words or propositions, παθητικαὶ ὑ. Phld. Rh. 1.198 S., cf. Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.83; distd. fr. παρένθεσις, Hermog. Id. 1.12; also, = μετάθεσις I.4, EM 3.25, al.
delay, postponement, Plb. 3.112.4, Sammelb. 7404.55 (ii A. D.), POxy. 2106.5 (iv A. D.); ὑ. σχεῖν to be put off, Plb. 2.51.7; ὑ. ἔλαβε τὸ διαβούλιον ἐπὶ τοὺς δέκα was postponed for the sake of consulting them, was referred to them, Id. 18.42.7; μηδεμίαν ὑ. ποιησάμενος IG 7.2712.62 (Acraeph., i A. D.), cf. 9 (2).517.37 (Larissa, iii B. C.), D.S. 16.94, Ph. 2.2; ἄνευ πάσης ὑ. freq. in Pap., PTeb. 386.23 (i B. C.), etc.:—a usage censured by Poll. 9.137:— εἶναι τὴν ἀναβολὴν ὑπέρθεσιν ἐνεργείας διʼ ὄ
like ὑπερβολή, excess, extraordinary character, κατὰ τὴν ὑ. τῆς ἐπιβολῆς Plb. 30.5.10; καθʼ ὑπέρθεσιν in an ascending scale, D.S. 19.34; μηδεμίαν ὑ. καταλιπεῖν no power of exceeding, Id. 17.114; τὸ καθʼ ὑ. αὐτοῦ μεγαλομερές his superlative munificence, prob. in IGRom. 4.293a ii 53 (Pergam., ii B. C., cf. Wiener Sitzb. 214(4).38).
Gramm., the superlative degree, Poll. 5.106, Phryn. PS p.1 B., Procl. in Prm. p.943 S.