ὑψηλός, ή, όν
(also -ός, όν Demetr.Troezen. 1 Diels): comparative and superlative -ότερος, -ότατος, and irregular -έστατος[[ 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.13.9 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: (ὕψι, ὕψος): —high, lofty, θάλαμος [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.426; πύργος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.384, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a highland country, χώρη ὀρεινὴ.. καὶ ὑψηλή [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.110; ὑψλὰ χωρία 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.97 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; and ὑψηλά alone, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 732c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐφ᾽ ὑψηλοῦ εἶναι, καθῆσθαι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.5.4, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Rh.Pr.” 6; ἐν ὑψηλῷ τινι καταστάς 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Eumenes” 17; ἀπὸ ὑψηλοῦ κρεμασθείς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 175d; ἀφ᾽ ὑψηλοτέρου καθορῶντες 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.2.29 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐποικοδομήσαντες ὑψηλότερον [τὸ τεῖχος] [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb, -λῶς καθήμενος [[ 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 64. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II metaphorically, high, lofty, stately, proud, ὄλβος, ἀρεταί, κλέος, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.22, 5.1, “P.” 3.111; τέχνη θεσπεσία τις καὶ ὑ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 289e; ὑ. καὶ χαύνη ἐλπίς [prev. author] “Ep.” 341e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑψηλὰ κομπεῖν talk high and boastfully, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1230. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 of persons, opposed to δυσδαίμων, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 418; ἀφ᾽ ὑψηλῶν βραχὺν ᾤκισε [prev. author] “Heracl.” 613 (Lyric poetry); ἐπὶ τοῖς ἐμοῖς κακοῖς ὑ. εἶναι [prev. author] “Hipp.” 730; ἐπὶ τούτοις ὑ. ἐξαρεῖν αὑτόν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 494d, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.7, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.174; [δαίμονα] ὑ. αἴρειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 555; τὸ νέον ἅπαν ὑ. καὶ θρασύ 4th c.AD: Metrodorus Epigrammaticus “fragment” 57; αὑτὸν παρέχειν -ότερον λημμάτων 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 25; ὑ. τῷ ἤθει 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Dio” 4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]