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ὑπερβαλέσθαι (hyperbalesthai)

ὑπερβαλέσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ὑπερβάλλω, meaning “throw over; surpass, cross”. It is the aorist middle infinitive.

Found 63 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Publicola 16.2: … ὕπατος τὸ δεύτερον, καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ Τίτος Λουκρήτιος· ἐπανελθὼν δὲ εἰς Ῥώμην καὶ βουλόμενος τῷ φρονήματι πρῶτον ὑπερβαλέσθαι τὸν Πορσίναν, ἔκτιζε πόλιν Σιγλιουρίαν ἤδη πλησίον ὄντος αὐτοῦ, καὶ τειχίσας μεγάλοις ἀναλώμασιν ἑπτακοσίους …

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.