ὑπερβαίνω

ὑπερβαίνω, [tense] fut.

A

-βήσομαι Heraclit.94

: [tense] aor. 2 ὑπερέβην, [dialect] Ep. [ per.] 3pl.

ὑπέρβᾰσαν Il.12.469

:—step over, mount, scale, c. acc.,

τεῖχος Il.

l. c.;

οὐδόν Od.8.80

;

τείχη E.Ba.654

, Th.3.20;

γεῖσα τειχέων E.Ph.1180

;

τάφρους Id.Rh.111

; ὑ. τοὺς οὔρους cross the boundaries, Hdt.6.108; τὰ ὄρεα, Αἷμον, Id.4.25, Th.2.96; δόμους step over the threshold of the house, E.Med.382 codd.;

δῶμα Id.Ion514

(troch., s. v. l.);

ὑ. τέγος ὡς τοὺς γείτονας D.22.53

; ὑ. τὴν οἰκίαν τινός, of burglars, PTeb.796.2 (ii B. C.); but more usu. ὑ. εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν ib.793vi21 (ii B. C.), cf. BGU 1007.10 (iii B. C.), PSI4.396.4 (iii B. C.) (the usage c. gen. is more than dub.; in Hdt.3.54 the best codd. have ἐπέβησαν; in E.Supp. 1049 Kirchhoff restored ὑπεκβᾶσ'; in Ion220 Herm. supplied βᾱλόν): abs.,

ὑ. εἰς τὴν τῶν Θηβαίων X.HG5.4.59

;

τῶν [ἡδονῶν] εἰς τὸ ἐπέκεινα ὑ. Pl.R.587c

; of rivers, overflow, ἐς τὴν χώρην, ἐς τὰς ἀρούρας, Hdt.2.13,14; εἰ ἐθελήσει ὑπερβῆναι ὁ ποταμὸς ταύτῃ ib.99.

2 overstep, transgress,

μέτρα Heraclit.

l. c.;

οὐ θέμιν οὐδὲ δίκαν Pi.Fr.1.5

;

νόμους τοὺς Περσέων Hdt.3.83

, cf. S.Ant.449, al.;

τοὺς ὅρκους D.11.2

;

τὸν τῶν ἀναγκαίων ὅρον Pl.R.373d

;

τῆς εἱμαρμένης ὅρον IG12(7).53.32

(Amorgos, iii A. D.); τἀληθές exceed the truth, Phld.Po.5.24: abs., transgress, trespass, sin, ὅτε κέν τις ὑπερβήῃ ([dialect] Ep. [tense] aor. subj.)

καὶ ἁμάρτῃ Il.9.501

;

ὑ. καὶ ἁμαρτάνοντες Pl.R.366a

, cf. 1 Ep.Thess.4.6.

3 pass or go beyond,

τοὺς προσεχέας Hdt.3.89

; leave out, omit, Pl.R.528d, al., Epicur.Ep.3p.63U., Gal.15.592, etc.;

ὑ. τι τῷ λόγῳ D.4.38

;

ὑ. τὸ σαφὲς εἰπεῖν Id.60.31

; pass over, i. e. leave unmolested, the next heir, Is. 3.57; ὑ. τῆς οὐσίας omit part of it, Arist.APo.91b27.

4 jump across an intervening space, Phld.D.3.9.

5 of Time, pass by, elapse,

ὑπερβάντων τῶν τῆς συμπαθείας χρόνων Sor.2.41

.

II go beyond, ὑπερβὰς ἑβδομήκοντα [ἔτη] after passing the age of seventy, Pl.Lg.755b; ὑ. τοῦτο go beyond this, in their demands, Plb.2.15.6; transcend,

τὸν νοῦν Plot.6.7.39

: abs., dies ὑπερβαίνοντες supernumerary days in the calendar, Macr.Sat.1.13.10.

2 surpass, outdo,

πάσῃ παρὰ πάντας ἀνθρώπους ὑ. ἀρετῇ Pl.Ti.24d

;

ὑ. ἢ γνῶσιν σαφηνείᾳ ἢ ἄγνοιαν ἀσαφείᾳ Id.R.478c

: abs., dub. l. in Thgn. 1015.

III stand over. shield, protect, c. dat., Opp.H.1.710.

IV in [tense] pf., to be higher than,

δύο [ἐσχάρας] ὑπερβεβηκυίας τὴν ἐν τῷ μεταφρένῳ ἐσχάραν Paul.Aeg.6.44

.

B Causal in [tense] aor. 1, put over, ὑπερβησάτω ἐπὶ τὰς δεξιὰς πλευρὰς τὴν κνήμην, as a direction to one mounting a horse, X.Eq.7.2.