ὑπερτέλλω
hupertellō

Greek verb

Last edited: 2024-06-03
Primary meaning to rise completely
Literal translation to rise above
Variants
ὑπερτέλλω hupertellō
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to rise completely astronomical event

Θερμότατος δὲ ἐστὶ ὁ ἥλιος τούτοισι τοῖσι ἀνθρώποισι τὸ ἑωθινόν, οὐ κατά περ τοῖσι ἄλλοισι μεσαμβρίης, ἀλλ᾽ ὑπερτείλας μέχρι οὗ ἀγορῆς διαλύσιος.

‘But the sun is the hottest among those people in the morning, not at midday such as amongst all others, but from when it has completely risen until the moment when the market is closing.’

— Herodotus 3.104.2

Genre: historiography
Date: 5th century BCE

Herodotus. 1920. Herodotus, with an English translation by A.D. Godley, ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2024). ὑπερτέλλω (Lemma #1284). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1284/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2024). ὑπερτέλλω (Lemma #1284). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1284/

MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2024). ὑπερτέλλω (Lemma #1284). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1284/

Harvard
Peeters, T. (2024) ὑπερτέλλω (Lemma #1284), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1284/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1284,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {ὑπερτέλλω ({Lemma} #1284)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1284/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1284/},
}