ὑπερφυής: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὑπερφυές, Att. acc. sg.<br><span class="bld">A</span> ὑπερφυᾶ [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[The Knights|Eq.]]''141, ''Nu.''76: Att. neut. pl. ὑπερφυῆ [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Gorgias|Grg.]]'' 467b, ὑπερφυᾶ Ar.''Ra.''611: ([[φύομαι]]):<br><span class="bld">I</span> literally, [[growing above]] the [[ground]], Dsc.4.73, Luc.''Lex.''6; [[growing higher than]] the rest, οἱ ὑ. τῶν ἀσταχύων D.L.1.100.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[overgrown]], [[enormous]], σμίνθος A.''Fr.''227 (troch.); λίθοι ὑ. τὸ μέγαθος Hdt. 2.175, cf. Ar.''Pax''229, ''Pl.''734; ὑ. τῷ μεγέθει ψόφος Arist.''Cael.''291a21.<br><span class="bld">II</span> 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; <b class="b3">πῶς οὐχ ὑπερφυές</b>; = is it not [[most]] [[strange]]? D.29.14; <b class="b3">κἀκεῖν' ὑ., εἰ</b>.. Isoc.17.30; <b class="b3">τὸ δὲ πάντων ὑπερφυέστατον, ὅτι</b>.. Lys.27.12, cf. Ar. ''Th.''831 (troch.): freq. joined with a relat., [[ὄχλος]] ὑπερφυὴς ὅσος Id.''Pl.''750; ὑπερφυεῖ τινι.. ὡς μεγάλῃ βλάβῃ [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Gorgias|Grg.]]'' 477d: freq. also joined with other Adjs., in which case, as a rule, it stands second, σχέτλια λέγεις καὶ ὑπερφυῆ ib.467b; δεινὸν ὡς [[ἀληθῶς]] καὶ ὑπερφυές D.21.88, etc.; but it stands first in Plu.2.12b, 155a, al.<br><span class="bld">2</span> Sup. ὑπερφυέστατος, 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.<br><span class="bld">III</span> Adv. [[ὑπερφυῶς]] = [[marvellously]], [[strangely]], [[exceedingly]], [[φιλαθήναιος]] ἦν ὑπερφυῶς [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[Acharnians|Ach.]]'' 142; ὑπερφυῶς σπουδάζειν [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Gorgias|Grg.]]'' 481b; in affirm. answers, ὑπερφυῶς μὲν οὖν Id.''R.'' 525b: Comp. ὑπερφυεστέρως Philostr.''Gym.''36.<br><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">ὑπερφυῶς ὡς</b>... before a Verb, ὑπερφυῶς ὡς χαίρω [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Symposium|Smp.]]'' 173c, cf. ''Tht.''155c; before an Adj., ὑπερφυῶς ὡς ἀληθῆ λέγεις Id.''Phd.''66a.