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ὑπερκείμενον (hyperkeimenon)

ὑπερκείμενον is an Ancient Greek form of ὑπέρκειμαι, meaning “lie above; be placed beyond”. It is the perfect middle/passive participle accusative singular masculine.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 3.69.4: ἀποδειξάντων δʼ αὐτῶν τὸν ὑπερκείμενον τῆς ἀγορᾶς λόφον, ὃς τότε μὲν ἐκαλεῖτο Ταρπήιος, νῦν δὲ Καπιτωλῖνος, αὖθις ἐκέλευσεν αὐτοὺς διαμαντευσαμένους …

All forms of ὑπέρκειμαι (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.