ὑπερβολῆς (hyperboles)

ὑπερβολῆς is an Ancient Greek form of ὑπερβολή, meaning “excess, extravagance; hyperbole”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 46 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Virtute Morali 5·2: … εῖ καὶ ἵστησιν. οὕτως δʼ ὁρίζων τὴν παθητικὴν κίνησιν ἐμποιεῖ τὰς ἠθικὰς ἀρετὰς περὶ τὸ ἄλογον, ἐλλείψεως καὶ ὑπερβολῆς μεσότητας οὔσας. οὐ γὰρ ἅπασαν ἀρετὴν μεσότητι γίνεσθαι ῥητέον· ἀλλʼ ἡ μὲν ἀπροσδεὴς τοῦ ἀλόγου καὶ περὶ τὸν …

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.