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ἐπι[πολ]-ή , ἡ, ῾ἐπιτέλλω (B)) pl. Ἐπιπολαί, αἱ, the Rise, a triangular plateau near Syracuse which rises from its base (the wall of Achradina) to its apex (Euryalus), Th.6.96, etc.
2.. sg., surface, Schwyzer 89.15 (Argos, iii B.C.), Aret.SD2.7, Gal.2.626.
II.. elsewh. only in gen., ἐπιπολῆς, as Adv., on the top, Hdt.2.62, Arist.GA747a5, etc.; “κάτω μὲν καὶ ἐ . . . , ἐν μέσῳ δέ . . ” X. Mem.3.1.7; “λίαν ἐ. πεφυτευμένα” Id.Oec.19.4; ἐ. τὸ σιναρὸν σκέλος ἔχοντα uppermost, Hp.Art.77; “τὰ ἐ. τε καὶ ἐντός” Pl.Phlb.47c, cf. 46e; of arguments, ἐ. εἶναι to be superficial, Arist.Rh.1400b31; but τὰ παντελῶς ἐ. quite simple tasks, D.61.37; “πᾶσίν ἐστιν ἐ. ἰδεῖν” Arist. HA622b25, cf. Rh.1376b14.
2.. as Prep., c. gen., on the top of, above, “τῶν πυλέων” Hdt.1.187, cf. Ar.Ec.1108, Pl.1207.
3.. with other Preps., “κατύπερθε ἐπιπολῆς τῶν ξύλων” Hdt.4.201; “ἐξ ἐ. εὑρίσκεσθαι” D.S.5.38; οὐκ ἐξ ἐ. ὁ λόγος ἡμῶν καθίκετο made a deep impression, Luc.Nigr.35, etc. (condemned by Phryn.PSp.67 B., Luc. Sol.5); “δι᾽ ἐ. τῶν λέξεων” Seleuc. ap. Ath.9.398a; so ἐν ἐπιπολῇ, = ἐπιπολῆς, Str.12.7.3.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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