from above, from overhead; up above
Latin word, found 62 times in the texts on Socratos.
Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.52.5: Reperti sunt complures nostri qui in phalanga insilirent et scuta manibus revellerent et desuper vulnerarent.
Silius Italicus, Punica 2.475: Desuper haec caelo spectans Tirynthius alto