- ἱππεύς
- ἱππ-εύς, gen. έως (-έω dub. in Hsch.), [dialect] Ep. ῆος, ὁ, ([etym.] ἵππος)A one who fights from a chariot, Hom. (only in Il.), opp. πεζός, 2.810; either of the driver or of the hero who fights, 12.66, 15.270; also of one who drives in a chariot-race, 23.262.2 horseman, rider, cavalryman,
ἰππήων στρότος Sapph.Supp.5.1
, cf. Hdt.3.88,9.49, A. Pers.14 (anap.), Arist.Pol.1270a29, etc.; τῆς πολιτείας ἱ. a public courier, Aristaenet.1.26.3 groom, Class.Rev.27.12 (Laodicea Combusta), 24.12, JHS18.108 (near Lysias).II ἱππεῖς, in social and political sense, knights, forming an aristocracy in early Greek communities, Arist.Pol.1297b18, etc.; at Eretria, ib.1306a35, Ath. 15.2; at Sparta, a royal bodyguard, Hdt.8.124, cf. 1.67, etc.; esp. at Athens, the Second Class in Solon's constitution, Arist.Ath.7.3; later, an aristocratic corps of cavalry, Ar.Eq.225, And.3.5, Philoch. 100, etc.2 of the Roman equites, D.S.37.8, D.H.4.24, App. BC1.22, etc.; ἱππεὺς Ῥωμαίων,= Lat. eques Romanus, Mon.Anc.Gr. 7.17, IG3.768a, IGRom.3.204 ([place name] Ancyra), OGI547.2 (ibid.), 645.7 ([place name] Palmyra), prob. in IGRom.4.1213 ([place name] Thyatira).III nimble kind of crab, Arist.HA525b8.IV kind of comet, Plin.HN2.90, Lyd. Ost.11.V girl's ornament, Hsch., cf. Ostr.323 (ii B.C.).VI a measure, πυρῶν, ἀμυγδάλων, ἀλεύρων, Supp.Epigr.2.710 ([place name] Pednelissus).
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