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ὑπερβάλλειν (hyperballein)

ὑπερβάλλειν is an Ancient Greek form of ὑπερβάλλω, meaning “throw over; surpass, cross”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 59 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Alcibiades 5.1: … ονηθεὶς τό τε χρυσίον ἀπέδωκεν αὐτῷ, καὶ προσέταξε τῇ ὑστεραίᾳ τοὺς ὠνουμένους τά τέλη τὰ δημόσια ταῖς τιμαῖς ὑπερβάλλειν ἀντωνούμενον.

All forms of ὑπερβάλλω (conjugation 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.