ὑπερφίᾰλος [ῐ],ον,
A. overbearing, overweening, arrogant,of persons, freq. in Homer, in Il. of the Trojans, 13.621 , 21.459 , al.; in Od. of the Cyclopes, 9.106 (of the Cyclopes in good sense, B. 10.78 ); more freq. of the suitors, Od. 1.134 , 2.310 , al.; Γίγαντες
B. 14.62
;ὑ. γόνος,of a Centaur, Pi. P. 2.42 , cf. O. 10(11).34 , P. 4.111 ; alsoθυμὸς ὑ.anarrogantspirit, Il. 15.94 ;ἔπος, μῦθοι ὑ.,
Od. 4.503 , 774 .—Orig. the word seems only to have signifiedpuissant,without any bad sense, as is prob. from Od. 21.289 , where Antinous uses it of himself and the rest of the suitors,ὑπερφιάλοισι μεθ' ἡμῖν δαίνυσαι;and Aristarch. readὑπερφίαλονforὑπέρθυμονin Il. 5.881 : later writers also used it without any bad sense,δεσμὸς ὑ.ahugebond, Pi. Fr. 92 ;οἶνον ὑπερφίαλον κελαρύζετεpourthe noblewine, or pour itwithout stint,Ion Trag. 10 :—this notion appears most clearly in theAdv. ὑπερφιάλως, exceedingly, excessively,
ὑ. νεμεσᾶν
Il. 13.293
, Od. 17.481 , 21.285 ; ἀνιάζειν
Il. 18.300
: but theAdv.also passed into the sense ofhaughtily, arrogantly,