ὑπερφυής
ἔργον δ' οὐδὲν ὄνειδος, ἀεργίη δέ τ' ὄνειδος → work is no disgrace, but idleness is disgrace | work is no disgrace, but idleness is | work is no disgrace; it is idleness which is a disgrace | work is no disgrace; the disgrace is idleness | work is no disgrace, not working is a disgrace | work is no shame, it is idleness that is shame | there is no shame in work, shame is in idleness
English (LSJ)
ές, Att. acc. sg.
A ὑπερφυᾶ Ar.Eq.141, Nu.76: Att. neut. pl. ὑπερφυῆ Pl.Grg.467b, -φυᾶ Ar.Ra.611: (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 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. -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.
