The corpus record

ὑψαύχην

upsauchen · ὁ

carrying the neck high

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Where it lives

Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k

What it meant

ὑψαύχην · hypsauchēn — LSJ

carrying the neck high

carrying the neck high, ἵππος Pl. Phdr. 253d, cf. Them. Or. 21.248c; θυμός Ph. 1.311; v. ὑψηχής.

2 stately, towering

metaph., stately, towering, ἐλάτη E. Ba. 1061; θῶκος Epigr.Gr. 903 (Sardis, iv A.D.); of a wine-bottle, AP 5.134.

3 stately, haughty

in moral sense, stately, haughty, ib. 250 (Iren.), 9.641 (Agath.), etc.

In the wild

ὑψαύχενα · hypsauchena Euripides, Bacchae 1061–1062
ὑψαύχην · hypsauchēn Plato, Phaedrus 253 (DIORISIS sentence 478)

Where it came from

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