ὕπερος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, or ὕπερον, τό, v. infr.:—<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[pestle]], ὕπερον δὲ τρίπηχυν <span class="bibl">Hes. <span class="title">Op.</span>423</span>; λεήναντες ὑπέροισι <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.200</span>; <b class="b3">ὑπέρου μοι περιτροπὴ γενήσεται</b>, [[proverb|prov.]] of never-ending and ineffectual labour, <span class="bibl">Pl.Com.1</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>209e</span>, <span class="bibl">Philem.30</span>, Plu.2.1072b; so εἰ ἐς ὅλμον ὕδωρ ἐκχέας ὑπέρῳ σιδηρῷ πτίττοι <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Herm.</span>79</span>; ὕπερα σιδηρᾶ <span class="bibl">Poll.7.107</span>, with which Bgk. compared . . <b class="b3">έροις σιδηροῖς</b>, the mutilated title of a successful comedy in <span class="title">IG</span>14.1097. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[anything shaped like a pestle]], </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> [[club]], [[cudgel]], <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Alex.</span>63</span>, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Demon.</span>48</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[lever for stretching dislocated joints]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Fract.</span>13</span>, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> like [[πηνίον]], a pupa of a geometrid moth, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>551b6</span>.—The form ὕπερον, τό, is found in <span class="title">Hesperia</span>5.383 (Athens, v B. C., pl.), <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Art.</span>5</span>,<span class="bibl">78</span>, <span class="bibl">Plb.1.22.7</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PRyl.</span>167.14</span> (pl., i A.D.), <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Philops.</span>35</span>, <span class="bibl">Poll.1.245</span>, <span class="bibl">7.107</span>, <span class="bibl">10.114</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EM</span>779.48</span>; whereas none of the other passages in which the word occurs prove anything about the gender, except Hes. l.c.; whence it has been suggested that [[τρίπηχυ]] should be read there, and <b class="b3">ὕπερον, τό,</b> received as the only form.</span>