ὕπερος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, or [[ὕπερον]], τό, v. infr.:—<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[pestle]], ὕπερον δὲ [[τρίπηχυς|τρίπηχυν]] Hes. Op.423; λεήναντες ὑπέροισι Hdt.1.200; [[ὑπέρου μοι περιτροπὴ γενήσεται]], [[proverb|prov.]] of [[never-ending]] and [[ineffectual]] [[labour]], Pl.Com.1, cf. Pl.Tht.209e, Philem.30, Plu.2.1072b; so εἰ ἐς ὅλμον ὕδωρ ἐκχέας ὑπέρῳ σιδηρῷ πτίττοι Luc.Herm.79; ὕπερα σιδηρᾶ Poll.7.107, with which Bgk. compared . . έροις σιδηροῖς, the [[mutilated]] title of a successful comedy in IG14.1097.<br><span class="bld">II</span> anything shaped like a [[pestle]],<br><span class="bld">1</span> [[club]], [[cudgel]], Plu.Alex.63, Luc.Demon.48.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[lever for stretching dislocated joints]], Hp.Fract.13, al.<br><span class="bld">III</span> like [[πηνίον]], a [[pupa]] of a geometrid [[moth]], Arist.HA551b6.—The form [[ὕπερον]], τό, is found in Hesperia5.383 (Athens, v B. C., pl.), Hp.Art.5,78, Plb.1.22.7, PRyl.167.14 (pl., i A.D.), Luc.Philops.35, Poll.1.245, 7.107, 10.114, EM779.48; 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 [[ὕπερον]], τό, received as the only form.