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Ὑπερβόρεοι

Ὑπερβόρεοι, Hyperboreans; as adj.: more than mortal fortune

Ὑπερβόρ-εοι, οἱ,
  • the Hyperboreans, a people supposed to live in the extreme north, h.Hom. 7.29, Pi. P. 10.30, Hdt. 4.32 sq., Str. 15.1.57.
      • 2 Adj., τύχη ὑπερβόρεος, prov. of more than mortal fortune, A. Ch. 373 (anap.). (ὑπερβόρειος is a constant v.l. in codd.; but in the poetic passages ὑπερβόρεος is either necessary or at least admissible, as in Cratin. 22, and this form is found in IG 2(2).1636.8.)

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