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ὕψος

upsos · τό

height, in height, summit, crown, sublimity, grandeur

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Where it lives

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What it meant

ὕψος · hypsos — LSJ

height, height, in height

height, ὕψος κρεῖσσον ἐκπηδήματος A. Ag. 1376; εἰς ὕ. αἴρειν τινά E. Ph. 404; κυπαρίττων ὕψη καὶ κάλλη Pl. Lg. 625c; ὕ. ἔχειν, λαμβάνειν, rise some height, Th. 1.91, 4.13, cf. 2.75; ἀφʼ ὕψους [με] δισκοβόλησε Epigr.Gr. 336 (Alexandria Troas): pl., Pl. Ti. 44d: abs. ὕψος, in height, opp. μῆκος, εὖρος, πλάτος, Hdt. 1.50, 178, IG 1(2).372.24, 2(2).1666A79, PMich.Zen. 38.12, al. (iii B. C.); so ἐς ὕψος Hdt. 2.13, 155.

II summit, crown

metaph., summit, crown, ὕ. ἀμαθίας Pl. Ep. 351d; σεμνότητος Arist. Mu. 398a12.

2 sublimity, grandeur

sublimity, grandeur, τῶν λόγων Metrod. Herc. 831.8, cf. Longin. 1.1, al.: pl., Id. 3.4, 7.4.

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