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ἱππαρμοστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱππαρμοστής ἱππαρμοστοῦ

Structure: ἱππαρμοστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: Laced. for i(/pparxos,

Sense

  1. a commander of cavalry

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Πασίμαχοσ δὲ ὁ ἱππαρμοστήσ, ἔχων ἱππέασ οὐ πολλούσ, ὡσ ἑώρα τοὺσ Σικυωνίουσ πιεζομένουσ, καταδήσασ ἀπὸ δένδρων τοὺσ ἵππουσ, καὶ ἀφελόμενοσ τὰσ ἀσπίδασ αὐτῶν, μετὰ τῶν ἐθελόντων ᾔει ἐναντίον τοῖσ Ἀργείοισ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 11:3)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἀπεῖχον ὅσον εἴκοσιν ἢ τριάκοντα σταδίουσ τοῦ Σικυῶνοσ, ὁ μὲν πολέμαρχοσ σὺν τοῖσ ὁπλίταισ οὖσιν ὡσ ἑξακοσίοισ ἀπῄει πάλιν ἐπὶ τὸ Λέχαιον, τὸν δ’ ἱππαρμοστὴν ἐκέλευσε σὺν τῇ τῶν ἱππέων μόρᾳ, ἐπεὶ προπέμψειαν τοὺσ Ἀμυκλαιεῖσ μέχρι ὁπόσου αὐτοὶ κελεύοιεν, μεταδιώκειν. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 5 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. a commander of cavalry

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

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