ὑπερβάς (hyperbas)

ὑπερβάς is an Ancient Greek form of ὑπερβαίνω, meaning “step over, cross”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 44 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 17.98: οὐ γάρ τις δηίων πολυκήτεα Νεῖλον ὑπερβὰς

Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 34: … ακηρύττειν τὸν ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου στεφανούμενον, ἄλλοθι δὲ μηδαμοῦ, Κτησιφῶν δὲ ἐν τῷ θεάτρῳ, οὐ τοὺς νόμους μόνον ὑπερβάς, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν τόπον μετενεγκών, οὐδὲ ἐκκλησιαζόντων Ἀθηναίων, ἀλλὰ τραγῳδῶν γιγνομένων, οὐδʼ ἐναντίον τοῦ δήμ …

Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History 6.43.17: Ὑπερβὰς δ’ ὀλίγα, τούτοις πάλιν ἐπιφέρει λέγων· καταλιπὼν γὰρ ὁ λαμπρὸς οὗτος τὴν ἐκκλησίαν τοῦ θεοῦ, ἐν ᾗ πιστεύσας …

All forms of ὑπερβαίνω (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.