The corpus record

ὑψοῦ

upsou

high, out, to a great height

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Where it lives

Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Iliad 6 · 0.54/10k
Odyssey 3 · 0.35/10k
Enneads 4 · 0.19/10k
Histories 3 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

ὑψοῦ · hypsou — LSJ

high, out, to a great height

high, νῆα . . ἔρυσσαν ὑ. ἐπὶ ψαμάθοις Il. 1.486; ὑ. δʼ ἐν νοτίῳ τήν γʼ ὅρμισαν [νῆα] out from the beach, Od. 4.785, 8.55; τῆς πόλιος . . ἐκκεχωσμένης ὑ. having the soil raised to a great height, Hdt. 2.138; ὑ. πατεῖν Pi. O. 1.115, cf. P. 10.70, B. 5.18; ὑ. κρέμασθαι Hermipp. 55 (anap.); ὑ. φέρεσθαι Anaxil. 22.30.

II highly

metaph., ἐξάρας με ὑ. having praised me highly, Hdt. 9.79; ὑ. αἴρειν θυμόν S. OT 914. Cf. ὑψόσε.

In the wild

ὑψοῦ · hypsou Euripides, Bacchae 1111–1112
ὑψοῦ · hypsou Herodotus, Histories 2.138.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2544)
ὑψοῦ · hypsou Herodotus, Histories 2.95.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2199)
ὑψοῦ · hypsou Herodotus, Histories 9.79.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9841)
ὑψοῦ · hypsou Works and Days 550–553
ὑψοῦ · hypsou Iliad 1.486

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