hyperboleis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →hyperboleus, hyperbolei:
Feminine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Souter (Later Latin)
- Age:
- Later
- Field:
- Arts
notes/strings in highest pitch tetrachord; highest tetrachord in 2-octave scale;
abl. pl.dat. pl.loc. pl.
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...metaphorai, metonymiai, antonomasiai, metalempsei, synekdochei, katachresei, allegoriai, plerumque hyperbolei: namque et rebus fit et verbis. Onomatopoiia fictio..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...Graecum illud elegantissimum est, quo praecipitur proepiplessein tei hyperbolei. XXXVIII. Tralata probari nisi in contextu sermonis non possunt..."