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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

  • τρίτῃ δὲ μετὰ ταῦθ’ ἱπποδρομίαν ἄξετε, ἵνα δὴ κέλησ κέλητα παρακελητιεῖ, ἁρ́ματα δ’ ἐπ’ ἀλλήλοισιν ἀνατετραμμένα φυσῶντα καὶ πνέοντα προσκινήσεται· (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, iambics31)
  • οὗτοι δὲ δοκιμασθέντεσ ἄρχουσι τέτταρα ἔτη, καὶ διοικοῦσι τήν τε πομπὴν τῶν Παναθηναίων καὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα τῆσ μουσικῆσ καὶ τὸν γυμνικὸν ἀγῶνα καὶ τὴν ἱπποδρομίαν, καὶ τὸν πέπλον ποιοῦνται, καὶ τοὺσ ἀμφορεῖσ ποιοῦνται μετὰ τῆσ βουλῆσ, καὶ τὸ ἔλαιον τοῖσ ἀθληταῖσ ἀποδιδόασι. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 60 1:3)
  • ἔστι γὰρ ἆθλα τοῖσ μὲν τὴν μουσικὴν νικῶσιν ἀργύριον καὶ χρυσᾶ, τοῖσ δὲ τὴν εὐανδρίαν ἀσπίδεσ, τοῖσ δὲ τὸν γυμνικὸν ἀγῶνα καὶ τὴν ἱπποδρομίαν ἔλαιον. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 60 3:3)
  • ἐπεὶ μέντοι ἐπανῆλθον οἱ Ὀδρύσαι, θάψαντεσ τοὺσ ἑαυτῶν καὶ πολὺν οἶνον ἐκπιόντεσ ἐπ’ αὐτοῖσ καὶ ἱπποδρομίαν ποιήσαντεσ, ὁμοῦ δὴ τὸ λοιπὸν τοῖσ Ἕλλησι στρατοπεδευσάμενοι ἦγον καὶ ἔκαον τὴν Βιθυνίδα. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 2 7:3)
  • καὶ τὴν μὲν ἱπποδρομίαν ἤδη ἐπεποιήκεσαν καὶ τὰ δρομικὰ τοῦ πεντάθλου· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 39:2)

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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