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ὑπερφυής

hyperphyes

growing above

Appears 19 times across Plato's dialogues.

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