ὑψηλός (upselos)

Where it lives

Baruch 4 · 15.83/10k
Regnorum IV 27 · 15.61/10k
Isaias 36 · 13.7/10k
Paralipomenon II 20 · 10.16/10k
Critias 5 · 10.12/10k
Odae 4 · 9.84/10k
Regnorum III 18 · 9.42/10k
Shield of Heracles 3 · 9.27/10k
Habacuc 1 · 9.14/10k
Ecclesiastes 4 · 8.84/10k
Sophonias 1 · 8.45/10k
On the Art of Horsemanship 5 · 7.2/10k

Densest 12 of 79 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ὑψηλός · hypsēlos — LSJ

high, lofty, highland

high, lofty, θάλαμος Od. 1.426; πύργος Il. 3.384, etc.; of a highland country, χώρη ὀρεινὴ . . καὶ ὑψηλή Hdt. 1.110; ὑψλὰ χωρία Th. 3.97; and ὑψηλά alone, Pl. Lg. 732c; ἐφʼ ὑψηλοῦ εἶναι, καθῆσθαι, X. HG 4.5.4, Luc. Rh.Pr. 6; ἐν ὑψηλῷ τινι καταστάς Plu. Eum. 17; ἀπὸ ὑψηλοῦ κρεμασθείς Pl. Tht. 175d; ἀφʼ ὑψηλοτέρου καθορῶντες X. HG 6.2.29; ἐποικοδομήσαντες ὑψηλότερον [τὸ τεῖχος] Th. 7.4. Adv., -λῶς καθήμενος Pherecr. 64.

II high, lofty, stately, proud, high

metaph., high, lofty, stately, proud, ὄλβος, ἀρεταί, κλέος, Pi. O. 2.22, 5.1, P. 3.111; τέχνη θεσπεσία τις καὶ ὑ. Pl. Euthd. 289e; ὑ. καὶ χαύνη ἐλπίς Id. Ep. 341e; ὑψηλὰ κομπεῖν talk high and boastfully, S. Aj. 1230.

2

of persons, opp. δυσδαίμων, E. Hel. 418; ἀφʼ ὑψηλῶν βραχὺν ᾤκισε Id. Heracl. 613 (lyr.); ἐπὶ τοῖς ἐμοῖς κακοῖς ὑ. εἶναι Id. Hipp. 730; ἐπὶ τούτοις ὑ. ἐξαρεῖν αὑτόν Pl. R. 494d, cf. And. 3.7, Aeschin. 2.174; [δαίμονα] ὑ. αἴρειν E. Supp. 555; τὸ νέον ἅπαν ὑ. καὶ θρασύ Metrod. Fr. 57; αὑτὸν παρέχειν -ότερον λημμάτων Luc. Nigr. 25; ὑ. τῷ ἤθει Plu. Dio 4.

3 upraised, mighty

upraised, i.e. mighty, ἐν βραχίονι -λῷ LXX Ex. 6.1, al.

4 sublime, loftier, sublimer

of poets, sublime, Longin. 40.2; τὰ -ότερα the loftier, sublimer thoughts or language, Id. 43.3; ὑ. λέξις, λόγος, D.H. Lys. 13, Plu. Per. 5. Adv. -λῶς Gal. 10.12.

In the wild

ὑψηλῆς · hypsēlēs Aeschylus, Agamemnon 895–901
ὑψηλὸν · hypsēlon Aeschylus, Persians 466–467
ὑψηλὰ · hypsēla Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 340)
ὑψηλῶν · hypsēlōn Aristophanes, Clouds 1.275 (DIORISIS sentence 250)
ὑψηλόν · hypsēlon Aristophanes, Frogs 130
ὑψηλοτέραν · hypsēloteran Demosthenes, Against Callicles 22 (DIORISIS sentence 71)

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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