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ἱππασία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱππασία

Structure: ἱππασι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: i(ppa/zomai

Sense

  1. riding, horse-exercise
  2. chariot-driving

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

  • μὴ ἐν ποταμοῖσ ὠργίσθησ, Κύριε, ἢ ἐν ποταμοῖσ ὁ θυμόσ σου̣ ἢ ἐν θαλάσσῃ τὸ ὅρμημά σου̣ ὅτι ἐπιβήσῃ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἵππουσ σου, καὶ ἡ ἱππασία σου σωτηρία. (Septuagint, Prophetia Habacuc 3:8)
  • τούσ γε μὴν ἑτερογνάθουσ μηνύει μὲν καὶ ἡ πέδη καλουμένη ἱππασία, πολὺ δὲ μᾶλλον καὶ τὸ μεταβάλλεσθαι τὴν ἱππασίαν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 3 6:1)
  • καὶ πάλιν ἱππασία πραγμάτων ἀπορώτατον. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 16:3)
  • κἀκεῖνοσ ἐπιτρέψασ τοῖσ πρεσβευταῖσ τὸν χάρακα φυλάττειν αὐτὸσ σὺν ὀλίγοισ ἱππεῦσιν εἰσ τὴν Ῥώμην ἐλαύνει συντόνῳ χρησάμενοσ ἱππασίᾳ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 23 7:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ ὅταν ὀργίζηται ἵπποσ ἵππῳ ἢ ἐν ἱππασίᾳ θυμῶται, εὐρύνει μᾶλλον τοὺσ μυκτῆρασ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 13:2)
  • ταῦτα δ’ ἐστὶν ἵππων ἔργα τῶν μάλιστα ἀχθομένων ἱππασίᾳ καὶ αἰσχρὰ καὶ οὐ καλὰ ποιούντων. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 10 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. riding

  2. chariot-driving

Related

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

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