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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

  • ἐκ Δὰν ἀκουσόμεθα φωνὴν ὀξύτητοσ ἵππων αὐτοῦ, ἀπὸ φωνῆσ χρεμετισμοῦ ἱππασίασ ἵππων αὐτοῦ ἐσείσθη πᾶσα ἡ γῆ. καὶ ἥξει καὶ καταφάγεται τὴν γῆν καὶ τὸ πλήρωμα αὐτῆσ, πόλιν καὶ τοὺσ κατοικοῦντασ ἐν αὐτῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 8:14)
  • οὐ τὰ ἐν τῇ γῇ λέγω, ὁπόσα τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ ἀναπείθεισ καθ̓ αὑτῶν ἢ κατ̓ ἀλλήλων ἐργάζεσθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, ὃσ τὸν μὲν Δία πολύμορφον ἐπιδεικνύεισ ἀλλάττων ἐσ ὅ τι ἄν σοι ἐπὶ τοῦ καιροῦ δοκῇ, τὴν Σελήνην δὲ καθαιρεῖσ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, τὸν Ἥλιον δὲ παρὰ τῇ Κλυμένῃ βραδύνειν ἐνίοτε ἀναγκάζεισ ἐπιλελησμένον τῆσ ἱππασίασ· (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:2)
  • ἠπιαλῶν γὰρ οἴκαδ’ ἐξ ἱππασίασ βαδίζων, εἶτα κατάξειέ τισ αὐτοῦ μεθύων τῆσ κεφαλῆσ Ὀρέστησ μαινόμενοσ· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, antistrophe2)
  • ἢν δὲ μὴ μόνον ὅταν πονεῖν μέλλῃ χαλινῶται, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὅταν ἐπὶ τὸν σῖτον καὶ ὅταν ἐξ ἱππασίασ εἰσ οἶκον ἀπάγηται, οὐδὲν ἂν εἰή θαυμαστὸν εἰ ἁρπάζοι τὸν χαλινὸν αὐτόματοσ προτεινόμενον. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 6 12:1)
  • καὶ τὸ μεταβάλλεσθαι δὲ τὴν ἱππασίαν ἀγαθόν, ἵνα ἀμφότεραι αἱ γνάθοι καθ’ ἑκάτερον τῆσ ἱππασίασ ἰσάζωνται. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 7 16:3)

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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