Ὑπερβόρεοι

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.)

Ὑπερβόρεοι a people living far to the north (O. 3.31), favourites of Apollo, from whom Herakles received the olive shoots, whose leaves were the prize at Olympia, v. O. 3.13ff., P. 10.31ff. δᾶμον Ὑπερβορέων πείσαις Ἀπόλλωνος θεράποντα λόγῳ (sc. Ἡρακλέης) O. 3.16

• 1ναυσὶ δʼ οὔτε πεζὸς ἰών κεν εὕροις ἐς Ὑπερβορέων ἀγῶνα θαυμαστὰν ὁδόν P. 10.30 μυρίαι δʼ ἔργων καλῶν τέτμανθʼ κέλευθοι καὶ πέραν Νείλοιο παγᾶν καὶ διʼ Ὑπερβορέους (τὰ δὲ ἑκατέρωθεν παρείληφε πέρατα, τὴν σύμπασαν οἰκουμένην θέλων εἰπεῖν Σ.) I. 6.23 ναόν· τὸν μὲν Ὑπερβορ[έοις] ἄνεμος ζαμενὴς ἔμειξ[ (cf. Paus., 10. 5. 9, of the second Delphic temple of Apollo) Pae. 8.63 v. also Ἄβαρις, fr. 270.

Ὑπερβόρεοι Ὑπερ-βόρεοι, οἱ, Βορέας

• the Hyperboreans, an imaginary people in the extreme north, distinguished for piety and happiness, Pind., Hdt.;— τύχη ὑπερβόρεος, proverb. of more than mortal fortune, Aesch.