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ἵππειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἵππειος ἵππειᾱ ἵππειον

Structure: ἱππει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: i(/ppos

Sense

  1. of a horse or horses, a horse-hair

Examples

  • ἄγε φίλτρον τόδ’ ἵππειον δέκευ, καὶ Δαμαίῳ νιν θύων ταῦρον ἀργᾶντα πατρὶ δεῖξον. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 13 18:5)
  • τοῦ δὲ Μέγησ κόρυθοσ χαλκήρεοσ ἱπποδασείησ κύμβαχον ἀκρότατον νύξ’ ἔγχεϊ ὀξυόεντι, ῥῆξε δ’ ἀφ’ ἵππειον λόφον αὐτοῦ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 15 56:16)
  • ἣ δὲ μετ’ Ἀδμήτου υἱὸν κοτέουσ’ ἐβεβήκει, ἵππειον δέ οἱ ἦξε θεὰ ζυγόν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 35:2)

Synonyms

  1. of a horse or horses

Related

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

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