ἀνώτερος
αὐτόχειρες οὔτε τῶν ἀγαθῶν οὔτε τῶν κακῶν γίγνονται τῶν συμβαινόντων αὐτοῖς → for not with their own hands do they deal out the blessings and curses that befall us
English (LSJ)
α, ον, Comp. Adj. from ἄνω (B),
A upper, higher, Arist.HA 496b35, D.H.Rh.1.1, Luc.Asin.9; ἐπιβουλῆς ἀ. γέγονεν got the better of, Nic.Dem.p.25 D.; neut. as Adv., Arist.HA503b18; above, LXX Le.11.21; earlier in a book, Ep.Hebr.10.8, cf. Plb.3.1.1; to a higher place, Ev.Luc.14.10. Adv. ἀνωτέρω, v. ἄνω.
German (Pape)
[Seite 269] der Obere, Arist. H. A. 2, 11 Pol.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀνώτερος: -α, -ον, συγρ. ἐπίθ. ἐσχηματισμένον ἐκ τοῦ ἄνω, Ἀριστ. Ἱστ. Ζ. 1. 17, 13· -ον ὡς ἐπίρρ., αὐτόθι 2. 11, 9: - Ἐπίρρ. ἀνωτέρω· ἴδε ἐν λ. ἄνω.
French (Bailly abrégé)
α, ον :
plus haut, supérieur.
Étymologie: ἄνω.
Spanish (DGE)
-ον
adj. compar. de ἄνω
I 1más elevado ὁ δεξιός (νεφρός) Arist.HA 497a1
•de pers. más alto Luc.Asin.9.
2 triunfador τῆς ἐπιβουλῆς ἀνώτερος γέγονεν triunfó sobre el complot Nic.Dam.Vit.Caes.34, ποιήσει ... ναυαγίων ἀνώτερον superará los naufragios Dionysius en Wien.Stud. 20.31.
II adv. -τερον
1 hacia arriba προσανάβηθι ἀνώτερον Eu.Luc.14.10.
2 más arriba como prep. κεῖται ... ὁ ἐγκέφαλος ἀνώτερον ... τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν Arist.HA 503b18, ἀ. τῶν ποδῶν LXX Le.11.21.
3 más en el interior ἀπὸ θαλάττης ἀνώτερον Scyl.Per.100.
4 antes en un texto o discurso ἀνώτερον λέγων Ep.Hebr.10.8, cf. Plb.3.1.1.
5 en términos más generales ἀνώτερον ἐπιζητεῖν Arist.EN 1155b2.
English (Strong)
comparative degree of ἄνω; upper, i.e. (neuter as adverb) to a more conspicuous place, in a former part of the book: above, higher.
English (Thayer)
ἀνωτερα, ἀνώτερον (comparitive from ἄνω, cf. κατώτερος, see Winer s Grammar, § 11,2c.; (Buttmann, 28 (24 f))), higher. The neuter ἀνώτερον as adverb, higher;
a. of motion, to a higher place, (up higher): in a higher place, above i. e. in the immediately preceding part of the passage quoted, Hob. 10:8. Similarly Polybius 3,1, 1 τρίτῃ ἀνώτερον βίβλῳ. (In Leviticus 11:21, with a genitive.)
