ὕπατον (hypaton)

ὕπατον is an Ancient Greek form of ὕπατος, meaning “highest, uppermost”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 235 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.146: Ὕπνον ἀοσσητῆρα, θεῶν ὕπατον, καλέουσα

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 40.46.3: … οὐδὲν ἐποίουν, ἀλλʼ ἐπʼ ἀλλήλους παρώρμηντο πολλὰ μὲν δαπανώμενοι πολλῷ δʼ ἔτι πλείω μαχόμενοι, ὥστε καὶ τὸν ὕπατόν ποτε τὸν Καλουῖνον τρωθῆναι. οὔκουν οὔθʼ ὕπατος οὔτε στρατηγὸς οὔτε πολίαρχός τίς σφας διεδέξατο, ἀλλὰ ἄναρκτ …

Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.2.3: ὁ μὲν γὰρ Δία τε ὠνόμασεν Ὕπατον πρῶτος, καὶ ὁπόσα ἔχει ψυχήν, τούτων μὲν ἠξίωσεν οὐδὲν θῦσαι, πέμματα δὲ ἐπιχώρια ἐπὶ τοῦ βωμοῦ καθήγισεν, ἃ …

All forms of ὕπατος (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.