Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἅμιππος

Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἅμιππος

Sense

  1. keeping up with horses, fleet as a horse
  2. infantry mixed with cavalry

Examples

  • ἁ δὲ σπέρμα μὲν ἀρχαιογόνων ἄντασ’ Ἐρεχθειδᾶν, τηλεπόροισ δ’ ἐν ἄντροισ τράφη θυέλλαισιν ἐν πατρῴαισ Βορεὰσ ἅμιπποσ ὀρθόποδοσ ὑπὲρ πάγου θεῶν παῖσ. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, antistrophe 22)

Synonyms

  1. keeping up with horses

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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