[sc. Having the effect of] a stone. For when they threw people into the sea they used to suspend a weight from their necks. Aristophanes [writes]: "I will raise him aloft and throw him into the Pit, having hung Hyperbolos round his neck".[1]
It is also a proper name.
He was a lover of litigation. Aristophanes [writes]: "and when Hyperbolos meets you he will not involve you in lawsuits".[2]
And on Hyperbolos see in the [entry] "persuasive".[3]