ὑπάτῳ (hypato)

ὑπάτῳ is an Ancient Greek form of ὕπατος, meaning “highest, uppermost”. It is the dative singular masculine adjective or adjective.

It can also be a form of Ὕπατος, “Hypatos — the most high, occurs not only as an epithet of Zeus in poetry, but as a real surname of the god”. It is the dative singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Fabius Maximus 16.4: … Παῦλον, ὡς ἔοικε, τρωθεὶς ὁ ἵππος ἀπεσείσατο, καὶ τῶν περὶ αὐτὸν ἄλλος καὶ ἄλλος ἀπολιπὼν τὸν ἵππον πεζὸς τῷ ὑπάτῳ προσήμυνε. τοῦτο δʼ οἱ ἱππεῖς ἰδόντες, ὡς παραγγέλματος κοινοῦ δεδομένου, πάντες ἀποπηδήσαντες πεζοὶ συνεπλέκ …

Strabo, Geography 9.2.31: … ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἐν τῇ Σικυωνίᾳ δῆμος Πλαταιαί, ὅθενπερ ἦν Μνασάλκης ὁ ποιητής. Γλίσσαντα δὲ λέγει κατοικίαν ἐν τῷ Ὑπάτῳ ὄρει ὅ ἐστιν ἐν τῇ Θηβαϊκῇ πλησίον Τευμησσοῦ καὶ τῆς Καδμείας, ᾧ ὑποπίπτει τὸ Ἀόνιον καλούμενον πεδίον, ὃ δια …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 42.arg: … ν ᾧ ἄρχοντες οἱ ἀριθμούμενοι οἵδε ἐγένοντο γ. Ἰούλιος Γ. υἱ. Καῖσαρ δικτάτωρ τὸ β μ. Ἀντώνιος Μ. υἱ. ἵππαρχος ὑπάτω δὲ κ. Φούφιος Κ. υἱ. Καλῆνος π. Οὐατίνιος π. υἱ.

All forms of ὕπατος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.