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
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..."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..."
