The corpus record

ὑψόθεν

upsothen

from on high, from above

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Where it lives

Suppliant Maidens 2 · 4.15/10k
Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Sophist 1 · 0.62/10k
Odyssey 4 · 0.46/10k
Iliad 4 · 0.36/10k

What it meant

ὑψόθεν · hypsothen — LSJ

from on high, from above

from on high, from above, Il. 11.53, 15.18, Hes. Th. 704, Pi. P. 8.81, A. Supp. 175 (lyr.), Fr. 275, E. Ba. 1111, Fr. 420.3; ὑ. ἐκ κορυφῆς Od. 2.147; ἐκ πέτρης 17.210: rare in Prose, καθορῶντες ὑ. τὸν τῶν κάτω βίον Pl. Sph. 216c.

II aloft, on high

= ὑψοῦ, aloft, on high, ὁ ὑ. σκοπός A. Supp. 381 (lyr.); τὰ ὑ., opp. τὰ ἔνερθε, AP 12.97 (Antip.).

2 above, over

c. gen., above, over, Pi. O. 3.12, Arat. 26, A.R. 2.806, IG 2(2).4225.2.

In the wild

ὑψόθεν · hypsothen Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 381–384
ὑψόθεν · hypsothen Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 175
ὑψόθεν · hypsothen Euripides, Bacchae 1111–1112
ὑψόθεν · hypsothen Euripides, Trojan Women 3.755 (DIORISIS sentence 404)
ὑψόθεν · hypsothen Theogony 703–704
ὑψόθεν · hypsothen Works and Days 448–449

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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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