ὑπερηφᾰν-έω,
used by [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] once in participle, much like{ὑπερηνορέων}, overweening, arrogant, ὑπερηφανέοντες Ἐπειοί [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.694 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: hence later writers formed the Verb, to be arrogant, ἐπί τινας [[ LXX.Neh.9.10, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιστολαί” 17, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.10.8, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ κακιῶν ί” p.11 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus, +others, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 3.1.1, etc. ] LXX+5th c.BC+]
__II later writers also used it in a transitive sense, treat disdainfully, with accusative, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 23.15, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 6.3.4, +others, 2nd c.AD(?): Xenophon Ephesius Scriptor Eroticus 1.16, “POxy.” 1676.16 (3rd c.AD)] Refs 1st c.BC+], etc.: with genitive, [[ 4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “Orationes” 21.249b, probably in 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 31 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: with accusative et infinitive, scorn that.., [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Longus Scriptor Eroticus 4.19. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__II.2 ὑ. ἑαυτούς extol themselves, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.33.8. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]