ὑπερβαίνω

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   A -βήσομαι Heraclit.94: aor. 2 ὑπερέβην, Ep. 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 (Ep. 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 pf., to be higher than, δύο [ἐσχάρας] ὑπερβεβηκυίας τὴν ἐν τῷ μεταφρένῳ ἐσχάραν Paul.Aeg.6.44.    B Causal in aor. 1, put over, ὑπερβησάτω ἐπὶ τὰς δεξιὰς πλευρὰς τὴν κνήμην, as a direction to one mounting a horse, X.Eq.7.2.