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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

  • καὶ εἶπε. τοῦτο ἔσται τὸ δικαίωμα τοῦ βασιλέωσ, ὃσβασιλεύσει ἐφ̓ ὑμᾶσ. τοὺσ υἱοὺσ ὑμῶν λήψεται, καὶ θήσεται αὐτοὺσ ἐν ἅρμασιν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐν ἱππεῦσιν αὐτοῦ καὶ προτρέχοντασ τῶν ἁρμάτων αὐτοῦ (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 8:11)
  • καὶ ἦρξα μὲν αὐτόθι δύ’ ἔτη τῶν πώποθ’ ἱππαρχηκότων μόνοσ, προσκατέμεινα δὲ αὐτόθι τὸν τρίτον ἐνιαυτόν, οὐ βουλόμενοσ πολίτασ ἄνδρασ ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν εἰσπράττειν τὸν μισθὸν τοῖσ ἱππεῦσιν ἀπόρωσ διακειμένουσ. (Hyperides, Speeches, 24:2)
  • ἐν δὲ ταῖσ πράξεσι θαυμαστὰ μὲν καὶ μεγάλα τοῦ Μαρκέλλου τὰ πρὸσ Κελτούσ, ὠσαμένου τοσοῦτον πλῆθοσ ἱππέων ὁμοῦ καὶ πεζῶν ὀλίγοισ τοῖσ περὶ αὐτὸν ἱππεῦσιν, ὃ ῥᾳδίωσ ὑφ’ ἑτέρου στρατηγοῦ γεγονὸσ οὐχ ἱστόρηται, καὶ τὸν ἄρχοντα τῶν πολεμίων ἀνελόντοσ· (Plutarch, Comparison of Pelopidas and Marcellus, chapter 1 2:1)
  • ὁ δὲ δικαστικόσ, ᾧ τὸ πλεῖστον ἀπέκοψε τῆσ τῶν συγκλητικῶν δυνάμεωσ, μόνοι γὰρ ἔκρινον τὰσ δίκασ, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο φοβεροὶ τῷ τε δήμῳ καὶ τοῖσ ἱππεῦσιν ἦσαν, ὁ δὲ τριακοσίουσ τῶν ἱππέων προσκατέλεξεν αὐτοῖσ οὖσι τριακοσίοισ, καὶ τὰσ κρίσεισ κοινὰσ τῶν ἑξακοσίων ἐποίησε. (Plutarch, Caius Gracchus, chapter 5 2:2)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ ὁ Ἀκραγαντῖνοσ Τελλίασ, φιλόξενοσ ὢν καὶ πάντασ πολυωρῶν, πεντακοσίοισ ἱππεῦσιν ἐκ Γέλασ ποτὲ καταλύσασιν ὡσ αὐτὸν χειμῶνοσ ὡρ́ᾳ ἔδωκεν ἑκάστῳ χιτῶνα καὶ ἱμάτιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 5 3:1)

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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