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ὕστερος,
ὕστᾰτος, latter, last, comparative and superlative without any Posit. adjective in use. (The Posit. must be looked for in Sanskrit úd 'up'; with ὕστερος, ὕστατος cf. Sanskrit comparative and superlative úttaras, uttamás 'higher, (later)', 'highest, (latest)'; compare ὑστέρα.)
__A ὕστερος, α, ον, latter:
__I of Place, coming after, behind, ὑστέρῳ ποδί [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1243, “HF” 1040 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑστέρας ἔχων πώλους keeping them behind, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 734; ὕ. λόχος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.3.21; ἐν τῷ ὑ. λόγῳ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.14, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 11(10).5, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 503c, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ὕ. the latter clauses, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.742d (assuming variant, δεύτερα Turnebus): with _genitive_, ὕστεροι ἡμῶν] Refs 1st c.AD+] behind us, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 206e, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.103 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐδὲν ὑστέρα νεώς not a whit behind (slower than) a ship, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 251. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II of Time, next, ὁ δ᾽ ὕστερος ὄρνυτο χαλκῷ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.17, 16.479 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τῷ ὑ. ἔτει in the next year, X [[ “HG” 7.2.10; τῇ ὑ. Ὀλυμπιάδι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.103 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑ. χρόνῳ in after time, [[ [prev. author] 1.130, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 702 (Lyric poetry), etc.; ἐν ὑ. χρόνοις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 865a; ἐν ὑστέραισιν ἡμέραις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1666 (troch.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δεκάτῃ ὑ. or ὑ. δεκάτῃ, on the 21st day, Decrees cited in [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 7.10, compare 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor “Ars Rhetorica” p.192 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+] H.: with genitive, later than, after, σεῦ ὕστερος εἶμ᾽ ὑπὸ γαῖαν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.333, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 859, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 87c, +others: ὑ. χρόνῳ τούτων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.166, 5.32, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.54. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __II.2 later, too late, ὕ. ἐλθών [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.320; κἂν ὕ. ἔλθῃ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 691 (_anapaest meter_); μῶν ὕστεραι πάρεσμε; [prev. author] “Lys.” 69; ὑ. ἀφικνεῖσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.90 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὕ. (i.e. ἐλθών) [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 222, “Tr.” 92; Διονύσιος ὁ ὕ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator ] Refs 5th c.BC+] the second, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1312a4. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.3 with genitive of things, too late for, ὕστεροι ἀπικόμενοι τῆς συμβολῆς [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.120; ὕ. ἐλθεῖν τοῦ σημείου 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 690 (_anapaest meter_); κακῶν ὕ. ἀφῖγμαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1174; ὕ. ἀφίκοντο τῆς μάχης μιᾷ ἡμέρᾳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 698e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.4 as substantive, οἱ ὕ. posterity, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1225 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄνδρες ὕ., ὕ. βροτοί, [[ [prev. author] “Tr.” 13, 1245. ] Refs]
__III of inferiority in Age, Worth, or Quality, γένει ὕ., i.e. younger, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.215 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; with genitive, οὐδενὸς ὕ. second to none, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 181 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.91; γυναικὸς ὕ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 746 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μηδ᾽ ἔμπροσθεν τῶν νόμων, ἀλλ᾽ ὕ. πολιτεύου not putting yourself above the laws, but below them, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.23 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σῶμα δεύτερον καὶ ὕ (i.e. ψυχῆς) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 896c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; νομίσας πάντα ὕστερα εἶναι τἆλλα πρός τι that all things were secondary to.., [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.41. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.2 logically posterior, ὁ τόπος ὕ. τῆς ὕλης [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 2.4.12. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__IV adverb ὑστέρως is found only in Eccl. writers, the ascription to Plato by [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Ammonius Grammaticus “περὶ ὁμοίων καὶ διαφόρων λέξεων” p.115V., Thom.Mag. p.284 ] Refs 1st c.AD+] R. being now corrected from [[ 1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus Ascal. p.405 H., where codices have δευτέρως: the _neuter_ ὕστερον] Refs 1st c.BC+] was used, rarely of Place, behind, ὀπαδεῖν ὕ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 475; ὕ. τῶν ἱππέων γίγνεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.3.42. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV.2 of Time, later, afterwards,[[ parm. 8.10, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.91, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also τὸ ὕ., opposed to τὸ παλαιόν, [[ 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 61; ὕστερα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.319 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; frequently with other words, ὕ. αὖτις [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.27; οὔποτ᾽ αὖθις ὕ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 858 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἔπειτα δ᾽ ὕ., after μέν, [[ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 270; εἶτα.. ὕ. [prev. author] 53.4 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; χρόνῳ ὕ. πολλῷ a long time after, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.171 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὕ. χρόνῳ or χρόνῳ ὕ. some time later, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.8, 64; χρόνοις ὕ. 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.39; βραχεῖ χρόνῳ ὕ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.3.52; οὐ πολλαῖς ἡμέραις ὕ. [prev. author] “HG” 1.1.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀλίγῳ or ὀλίγον ὕ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 327c, “Grg.” 471c; πολλῷ ὕ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 58a; οἱ ἄνθρωποι οἱ ὕ. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]posterity, [[ [prev. author] “R.” 415d ] Refs]; τὰ ὕ. γράμματα the later inscriptions, [[ [prev. author] “Chrm.” 165a. ] Refs]
__IV.2.b with genitive, ὕ. τούτων [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.113, etc.; ὕ. ἔτι τούτων [prev. author] 9.83 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῆς ἐμεωυτοῦ γνώμης ὕ. after my own opinion was formed, [[ [prev. author] 2.18 ] Refs]; τοῦ δέοντος ὕ. later than ought to be, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 57: with _dative_ et _genitive_, ἔτεσι πολλοῖσι ὕ. τούτων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.140, compare 1.91; πολλῷ ὕ. τῶν Τρωϊκῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.3, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 19.22: followed by ἤ, τεσσαρακοστῇ ἡμέρᾳ ὕ... ἢ ποτείδαια ἀπέστη 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.60, compare 6.4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV.3 in adverb sense with Preps., ἐς ὕστερον [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.126, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 351, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.41, 74, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1194, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 720, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 82b, etc.: ἐν ὑστέρῳ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.13, 8.27: ἐξ ὑστέρου 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 14.109, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.73; also ἐξ ὑστέρης 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.108, 5.106, 6.85. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B ὕστᾰτος, η, ον, last:
__B.I of Place, ἅμα θ᾽ οἱ πρῶτοί τε καὶ ὕστατοι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.281 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εὐθυντὴρ ὕστατος νεώς hindmost, of a rudder, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 717; ἡμῖν τοῖς ὑ. κατακειμενοις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 177e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II of Time, τίνα πρῶτον, τίνα δ᾽ ὕ. ἐξενάριξε; [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.299, compare 5.703, E “HF” 485, etc.; ὁ δ᾽ ὕ. γε.. πρεσβεύεται 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1300; ἡλίου.. πρὸς ὕ. φῶς [prev. work] 1324 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὸν ὕ. μέλψασα γόον[[ [prev. work] 1445; τοὔπος ὕ. θροεῖ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 864 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ὑστάτη (i.e. ἡμέρα) τῆς ὁρτῆς the last day of.., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.151; ἐν τοῖσιν ὑ. φράσω 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 908 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐκ ἐν ὑστάτοις not among the last, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1115; οἱ ὕστατοι εἰπόντες 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.16, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὕστατος ἁλώσιος ἀντάσαις meeting with his downfall at last, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).41. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.III of Rank or Degree, οὐκ ἐν ὑστάτοις [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 315 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ὕ. πάσχειν, like{τὰ ἔσχατα}, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Phal.” 1.5. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__B.IV for regular adverb ὑστάτως (which occurs only in [[ “Hippiatrica” 20), the _neuter_ _sing._ and _plural_ are used, πύματόν τε καὶ ὕστατον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.116; ὕστατα καὶ πύματα 4.685, 20.13; νῦν ὕστατα 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.232, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.78; ὕστατα ὁρμηθέντες 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.43; καὶ πρῶτον καὶ ὕ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 247a ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὕ. δή σε προσεροῦσι, τὸ ὕ. προσειπεῖν, [[ [prev. author] “Phd.” 60a, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 1.30. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__B.IV.2 in adverb sense with Preps., ἐν ὑστάτοις at last, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 620c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς τὸ ὕ. extremely, γέρων ἐς τὸ ὕ. [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 9. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
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