ὑπερφυ-ής , ές , Att. acc. sg. ὑπερφυᾶ Ar. Eq. 141 , Nu. 76 : Att. neut. pl. ὑπερφυῆ Pl. Grg. 467b , -φυᾶ Ar. Ra. 611 : ( φύομαι ): literally, growing above the ground, Dsc. 4.73 , Luc. Lex. 6 ; growi
ὑπερφυ-ής,ές, Att. acc. sg.
A.
ὑπερφυᾶ
Ar. Eq. 141
, Nu. 76 : Att. neut. pl. ὑπερφυῆ
Pl. Grg. 467b
, -φυᾶ
Ar. Ra. 611
: (φύομαι):
I. literally,growing abovethe ground, Dsc. 4.73 , Luc. Lex. 6 ;growing higher thanthe 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 notmost strange?
D. 29.14 ;κἀκεῖν' 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 anAdj., ὑ. ὡς ἀληθῆ λέγεις
Id. Phd. 66a
.
