HYPERBOLA

a conic section obtained by cutting a cone with a plane perpendicular to base of cone. throw beyond), term of rhetoric for exaggeration. people who lived in unknown regions of north (i.e. of the north wind, Boreas). Attic orator; pupil of I so crates; opposed Philip and Alexander of Macedon; advocated Lamian War; was captured and killed by Anti pater. ogy; s. of Uranus and Gaea and f. of Helios; title-character of unfinished masterpiece of Keats.