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ἱππεία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱππεία

Structure: ἱππει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: i(ppeu/w

Sense

  1. a riding or driving, horsemanship
  2. 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

  • ὦ Πέλοποσ ἁ πρόσθεν πολύπονοσ ἱππεία, ὡσ ἔμολεσ αἰανὴσ τᾷδε γᾷ. (Sophocles, choral, epode1)
  • ταῖσ δὲ πεζαῖσ δυνάμεσι παρεμέμικτο καὶ ἱππεία, δεδιδαγμένων ἵππων ὀρειβατεῖν καὶ κατοκλάζεσθαι ῥᾳδίωσ ἀπὸ προστάγματοσ, ὅτε τούτου δέοι. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 4 30:2)
  • Δισσᾶν ἐκ βροχίδων ἁ μὲν μία πίονα κίχλαν, ἁ μία δ’ ἱππείᾳ κόσσυφον εἷλε πάγᾳ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 761)
  • μηδ’ εἰσ τὴν πόλιν εἰσφερέσθω ἵππεια κρέα μηδὲ ἡμιόνεια μηδὲ ἀγρίων ὄνων καὶ ἡμέρων παρδάλεών τε καὶ ἀλωπέκων καὶ λαγῶν καὶ καθόλου δὲ πάντων τῶν ἀπηγορευμένων ζῴων τοῖσ Ιοὐδαίοισ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 12 169:1)

Synonyms

  1. a riding or driving

  2. cavalry

Related

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

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