ὑπάτη

ὑπᾰτ-η (sc. χορδή), ἡ,

• the highest of the three strings which formed the framework of the musical scale (opp. νεάτη, μέση), but the lowest in pitch, Philol. 6, Pl. R. 443d, etc.; αἱ ὑπάται the highest tetrachord, Anon. Oxy. 667.16; τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν ὑπάτων . . ἐπίτασιν raising of pitch from the low notes, Antyll. ap. Orib. 6.10.7; τὸ βομβυκέστερον τῶν ὑπατῶν Nicom. Harm. 11; ὑπάτη ὑπατῶν ibid. (but ὑ. ὑπάτων Cleonid. Harm. 4).