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ἱππάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱππάς ἱππάδος

Structure: ἱππαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fem. of i(ppiko/s

Sense

  1. a riding-dress

Declension

Third 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

  • ἔδει δὲ τελεῖν πεντακοσιομέδιμνον μέν, ὃσ ἂν ἐκ τῆσ οἰκείασ ποιῇ πεντακόσια μέτρα τὰ συνάμφω ξηρὰ καὶ ὑγρά, ἱππάδα δὲ τοὺσ τριακόσια ποιοῦντασ ‐ ὡσ δ’ ἔνιοί φασι τοὺσ ἱπποτροφεῖν δυναμένουσ· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 7 4:1)
  • καὶ παρέστηκεν ἵπποσ ἐκμαρτυρῶν, ὡσ τὴν ἱππάδα τοῦτο σημαίνουσαν. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 7 4:8)
  • καὶ τούτουσ ἱππάδα τελοῦντασ ἐκάλουν· (Plutarch, , chapter 18 2:1)
  • ’ θάψαι τε ἅμα τοῖσ γονεῦσι πρὸ τῶν Ἱππάδων πυλῶν, ὥσ φησιν Ἡλιόδωροσ ἐν τῷ τρίτῳ περὶ μνημάτων. (Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum, , section 1 16:3)
  • τῶν ἐπιεικῶν, ἐπεὶ Σόλων γε ἐοίκε τὴν ἀναγκαιοτάτην ἀποδιδόναι τῷ δήμῳ δύναμιν, τὸ τὰσ ἀρχὰσ αἱρεῖσθαι καὶ εὐθύνειν μηδὲ γὰρ τούτου κύριοσ ὢν ὁ δῆμοσ δοῦλοσ ἂν εἰή καὶ πολέμιοσ, τὰσ δ’ ἀρχὰσ ἐκ τῶν γνωρίμων καὶ τῶν εὐπόρων κατέστησε πάσασ, ἐκ τῶν πεντακοσιομεδίμνων καὶ ζευγιτῶν καὶ τρίτου τέλουσ τῆσ καλουμένησ ἱππάδοσ· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 307:1)

Synonyms

  1. a riding-dress

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

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