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ἱππεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱππεύς ἱππέως

Structure: ἱππευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: i(/ppos

Sense

  1. a horseman, the charioteer, the hero who fights from a chariot
  2. a horseman, rider
  3. Horsemen or Knights
  4. the King's Body Guard

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

  • Ἡγεῖσθαι μὲν τῆσ πάσησ στρατιᾶσ τοὺσ κατασκόπουσ ἱππέασ ἐπὶ δυοῖν τεταγμένουσ σὺν τῷ οἰκείῳ ἡγεμόνι. (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 2:1)
  • ἀπωσθέντων δὲ εἰ μὲν φυγὴ λαμπρὰ γένοιτο, διαχωρεῖν ἤδη τὰσ πεζικὰσ τάξεισ καὶ ἐπελαύνειν τοὺσ ἱππέασ, μὴ πάντασ τοὺσ λόχουσ ἀλλὰ τοὺσ ἡμίσεασ· (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 37:1)
  • ἡ γὰρ τάξισ αὕτη, ὡσ οἶσθα, πεζῶν ἐστιν καὶ ἱππέασ εἴκοσιν ἐσ διακονίαν ἔχει. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 3 2:1)
  • παραμείψαντεσ δὲ τὸν Ἀστέλεφον ἐσ Σεβαστόπολιν ἥκομεν πρὸ μεσημβρίασ, ἀπὸ Χώβου ὁρμηθέντεσ, σταδίουσ εἴκοσι καὶ ἑκατὸν τοὺσ ἀπὸ Ἀστελέφου, ὡσ καὶ τὴν μισθοφορὰν τοῖσ στρατιώταισ δοῦναι τῆσ αὐτῆσ ἡμέρασ, καὶ τοὺσ ἵππουσ καὶ τὰ ὅπλα ἰδεῖν καὶ τοὺσ ἱππέασ ἀναπηδῶντασ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἵππουσ καὶ τοὺσ κάμνοντασ καὶ τὸν σῖτον, καὶ τὸ τεῖχοσ περιελθεῖν καὶ τὴν τάφρον. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 10 4:1)
  • ἀλλὰ ἴδοισ ἄν, ὦ Ἀνάχαρσι, ἐπὶ πλέον ἡμῖν συνδιατρίψασ, καὶ ὅπλα ἑκάστῳ μάλα πολλά, οἷσ χρώμεθα ὁπόταν ἀναγκαῖον ᾖ, καὶ λόφουσ καὶ φάλαρα καὶ ἵππουσ, καὶ ἱππέασ σχεδὸν τὸ τέταρτον τῶν πολιτῶν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 34:5)

Synonyms

  1. a horseman

  2. the King's Body Guard

Related

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

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