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ἱπποδρομία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱπποδρομία

Structure: ἱπποδρομι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a horse-race or chariot-race

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

  • ὃ δὴ καί τότε τοῖσ βαρβάροισ ἀπήντα καί τὰ πρῶτα τῶν ἁρμάτων ἀργῶσ ἐξελαυνόμενα καί προσπίπτοντα νωθρῶσ ἐκκρούσαντεσ οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι μετὰ κρότου καὶ γέλωτοσ ἄλλα ᾔτουν, ὥσπερ εἰώθασιν ἐν ταῖσ θεατρικαῖσ ἱπποδρομίαισ. (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 18 3:2)
  • ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἐν ταῖσ ἱπποδρομίαισ εἰσ τὸν τοῦ πράγματοσ αὐτὸν δρόμον εἰσελαύνετε. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1762)

Synonyms

  1. a horse-race or chariot-race

Related

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

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