ὑπερφυής: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ές, Att. acc. sg. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> ὑπερφυᾶ <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>141</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Nu.</span>76</span>: Att. neut. pl. ὑπερφυῆ <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>467b</span>, ὑπερφυᾶ <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>611</span>: ([[φύομαι]]): </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> literally, [[growing above]] the [[ground]], Dsc.4.73, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Lex.</span>6</span>; [[growing higher than]] the rest, οἱ ὑ. τῶν ἀσταχύων <span class="bibl">D.L.1.100</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[overgrown]], [[enormous]], σμίνθος <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Fr.</span>227</span> (troch.); λίθοι ὑ. τὸ μέγαθος <span class="bibl">Hdt. 2.175</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pax</span>229</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pl.</span>734</span>; ὑ. τῷ μεγέθει ψόφος <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Cael.</span>291a21</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> without a distinct sense of bulk, [[monstrous]], [[extraordinary]], in good and bad sense, ἔργον ὑ. μέγαθός τε καὶ κάλλος <span class="bibl">Hdt.9.78</span>; ἔργον ὑ. ἐργάσατο <span class="bibl">Id.8.116</span>; ἀτραπὸς δαιμονίως ὑ. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>76</span>; ὑ. [[τέχνη]] <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Eq.</span>141</span>; <b class="b3">πῶς οὐχ ὑπερφυές;</b> = is it not [[most]] [[strange]]? <span class="bibl">D.29.14</span>; <b class="b3">κἀκεῖν' ὑ., εἰ</b> . . <span class="bibl">Isoc.17.30</span>; <b class="b3">τὸ δὲ πάντων ὑπερφυέστατον, ὅτι</b> . . <span class="bibl">Lys.27.12</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ar. <span class="title">Th.</span>831</span> (troch.): freq. joined with a relat., ὄχλος ὑπερφυὴς ὅσος <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pl.</span>750</span>; ὑπερφυεῖ τινι . . ὡς μεγάλῃ βλάβῃ <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>477d</span>: freq. also joined with other Adjs., in which case, as a rule, it stands second, <b class="b3">σχέτλια λέγεις καὶ ὑ</b>. ib.<span class="bibl">467b</span>; δεινὸν ὡς ἀληθῶς καὶ ὑ. <span class="bibl">D.21.88</span>, etc.; but it stands first in Plu.2.12b, 155a, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> Sup. ὑπερφυέστατος, as an honorific title, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Stud.Pal.</span>20.129.3</span> (v A. D.), etc.: also in Posit., ἡ ὑ. ὑμῶν ἐξουσία <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PMasp.</span>2i 1</span> (vi A. D.), etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> Adv. [[ὑπερφυῶς]] = [[marvellously]], [[strangely]], [[exceedingly]], [[φιλαθήναιος]] ἦν ὑ. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span> 142</span>; ὑ. σπουδάζειν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>481b</span>; in affirm. answers, ὑ. μὲν οὖν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">R.</span> 525b</span>: Comp. ὑπερφυεστέρως <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">Gym.</span>36</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">ὑ. ὡς</b>... before a Verb, ὑ. ὡς χαίρω <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>173c</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Tht.</span>155c</span>; before an Adj., ὑ. ὡς ἀληθῆ λέγεις <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Phd.</span>66a</span>.</span>