ὑπερηνορέων
hyperenoreon
exceedingly manly
Appears 14 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ὑπερηνορέων, οντος, ὁ, A. exceedingly manly: but always used in bad sense (though ἠνορέη is = ἀνδρεία, manliness, courage), overbearing, overweening, of the Trojans, Il. 4.176; of Deïphobus (the Trojan), 13.258; of the Cyclopes, Od. 6.5; in Od. mostly of the suitors, 17.482, al.; κακῶς ὑπερηνορέοντες 2.266, cf. 4.766. II. Com., thinking oneself more than man, Pax 53. (No Verb ὑπερηνορέω occurs: cf. ὑπερμενέων.)
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