A.high-flying, soaring, “αἰετός” Il.12.201,219, Od.20.243; “ὑψιπετᾶν ἀνέμων” Pi.P.3.105; “γενοίμαν αἰετὸς ὑψιπέτας” S.Fr.476 = Ar. Av.1337 (lyr.): Comp. “-έστερος” Herm. ap. Stob.1.49.45:—some unnamed Gramm. (in opposition to Aristarchus) wrote ὑψιπετῆς (contr. from ὑψιπετήεις), v. Sch. A Il.12.201; the acc. sg. ὑψιπετῆ ὄρνιθα in Ant. Lib.16.2 belongs in sense to this word, in form to the next.
ὑψι^-πέτης , ου, Dor. ὑψι^-πέτας , α, ὁ: (πέτομαι):—
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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