ὕπερος, ὁ,
or ὕπερον, τό, see below:— pestle, ὕπερον δὲ τρίπηχυν [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 423; λεήναντες ὑπέροισι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.200 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὑπέρου μοι περιτροπὴ γενήσεται, proverbial of never-ending and ineffectual labour, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 1, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 209e, 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 30, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1072b; so εἰ ἐς ὅλμον ὕδωρ ἐκχέας ὑπέρῳ σιδηρῷ πτίττοι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 79; ὕπερα σιδηρᾶ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.107, with which Bgk. compared.. έροις σιδηροῖς,] Refs 5th c.BC+] the mutilated title of a successful comedy in [[ “IG” 14.1097. ] Refs]
__II anything shaped like a pestle,
__II.1 club, cudgel, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 63, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Demon.” 48. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.2 lever for stretching dislocated joints, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 13, +others ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III like{πηνίον}, a pupa of a geometrid moth, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 551b6.] Refs 4th c.BC+]—The form ὕπερον, τό, is found in [[ “Hesperia” 5.383 (Athens, 5th c.BC, _plural_), 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 5, 78, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.22.7, “PRyl.” 167.14 (_plural_, 1st c.AD), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Philops.” 35, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 1.245, 7.107, 10.114, “Etymologicum Magnum” 779.48 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; whereas none of the other passages in which the word occurs prove anything about the gender, except [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus [same place] ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; whence it has been suggested that τρίπηχυ should be read there, and ὕπερον, τό, received as the only form.