ὑπερβολάς (hyperbolas)

ὑπερβολάς is an Ancient Greek form of ὑπερβολή, meaning “excess, extravagance; hyperbole”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 98 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Suppliants 480: συνῆψʼ, ἄγουσα θυμὸν εἰς ὑπερβολάς.

Plutarch, Numa 20.4: … ν καλῶν καὶ δικαίων ἐπεισρεόντων εἰς ἅπαντας καὶ διαχεομένης τῆς περὶ ἐκεῖνον γαλήνης· ὥστε καὶ τὰς ποιητικὰς ὑπερβολὰς ἐνδεῖν πρὸς τὴν τότε κατάστασιν λέγουσιν·

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 7.7: … οὐδʼ αἱ ἐλλείψεις, ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ περὶ ἐπιθυμίας ἔχει καὶ λύπας, ὁ μὲν τὰς ὑπερβολὰς διώκων τῶν ἡδέων †ἢ καθʼ ὑπερβολὰσ† ἢ διὰ προαίρεσιν, διʼ αὐτὰς καὶ μηδὲν διʼ ἕτερον ἀποβαῖνον, ἀκόλαστος· ἀνάγκη γὰρ τοῦτον μὴ εἶναι μεταμελητι …

All forms of ὑπερβολή (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.