ὑπερβολή
Alt. ὑπερβολή, ἡ,
Etym. ὑπερβάλλω
I. "a throwing beyond" others: "an overshooting, superiority", Thuc.
2. "excess, over-great degree" of a thing, Plat.; in various phrases, χρημάτων ὑπερβολῇ πρίασθαι to buy at an extravagant price, Eur.; οὐκ ἔχει ὑπερβολήν it can go no further, Dem.; εἴ τις ὑπ. τούτου if there's "aught beyond" (worse than) this, id=Dem.; ὑπερβολὴν ποιεῖσθαι "to go to all extremities, to put an extreme case", id=Dem.; foll. by a gen., ὑπ. ποιεῖσθαι ἐκείνων τῆς αὑτοῦ βδελυρίας to carry his own rascality "beyond" theirs, id=Dem.; ἐπέφερον τὴν ὑπ. τοῦ καινοῦσθαι pushed on their "extravagance" in revolutionising, Thuc.
3. with a prep. in Adverbial sense, = ὑπερβαλλόντως, εἰς ὑπερβολήν "in excess, exceedingly;" c. gen. "far beyond", τοῦ πρόσθεν εἰς ὑπ. πανοῦργος, i. e. "far more" wicked, Eur.:— καθ᾽ ὑπερβολὴν τοξεύσας "with surpassing aim", Soph.; καθ. ὑπ. "extravagantly", Isocr., etc.
4. "overstrained phrase, hyperbole", id=Isocr., Arist.
II. "a crossing over" mountains, Xen.
III. (from Mid.) "a deferring, delay", Hdt., Dem.