- ὑπερφυής
- ὑπερφυ-ής, ές, [dialect] Att. acc. sg.A
ὑπερφυᾶ Ar.Eq.141
, Nu.76: [dialect] Att. neut. pl.ὑπερφυῆ Pl.Grg.467b
,-φυᾶ Ar.Ra.611
: ([etym.] φύομαι):I literally, growing above the ground, Dsc.4.73, Luc.Lex.6; growing higher than the rest,οἱ ὑ. τῶν ἀσταχύων D.L.1.100
.2 overgrown, enormous,σμίνθος A.Fr.227
(troch.);λίθοι ὑ. τὸ μέγαθος Hdt. 2.175
, cf. Ar.Pax229, Pl.734;ὑ. τῷ μεγέθει ψόφος Arist.Cael.291a21
.II without a distinct sense of bulk, monstrous, extraordinary, in good and bad sense,ἔργον ὑ. μέγαθός τε καὶ κάλλος Hdt.9.78
;ἔργον ὑ. ἐργάσατο Id.8.116
;ἀτραπὸς δαιμονίως ὑ. Ar.Nu.76
;ὑ. τέχνη Id.Eq.141
; πῶς οὐχ ὑπερφυές; is it not most strange? D.29.14; κἀκεῖν' ὑ., εἰ . . Isoc.17.30; τὸ δὲ πάντων -έστατον, ὅτι . . Lys.27.12, cf. Ar. Th.831 (troch.): freq. joined with a relat.,ὄχλος ὑπερφυὴς ὅσος Id.Pl.750
;ὑπερφυεῖ τινι . . ὡς μεγάλῃ βλάβῃ Pl.Grg.477d
: freq. also joined with other Adjs., in which case, as a rule, it stands second, σχέτλια λέγεις καὶ ὑ. ib.467b;δεινὸν ὡς ἀληθῶς καὶ ὑ. D.21.88
, etc.; but it stands first in Plu.2.12b, 155a, al.2 [comp] Sup. -έστατος, as an honorific title, Stud.Pal.20.129.3 (v A. D.), etc.: also in Posit.,ἡ ὑ. ὑμῶν ἐξουσία PMasp.2i 1
(vi A. D.), etc.III Adv. -ῶς marvellously, strangely, exceedingly,φιλαθήναιος ἦν ὑ. Ar.Ach. 142
;ὑ. σπουδάζειν Pl.Grg.481b
; in affirm. answers,ὑ. μὲν οὖν Id.R. 525b
: [comp] Comp.-εστέρως Philostr.Gym.36
.2 ὑ. ὡς . . , before a Verb,ὑ. ὡς χαίρω Pl.Smp.173c
, cf. Tht.155c; before an Adj.,ὑ. ὡς ἀληθῆ λέγεις Id.Phd.66a
.
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