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ἱππ-εύω ,
A.to be a horseman or rider, ride, Hdt.1.136, etc.; “ἱ. ταῖς κυούσαις ἵπποις” Arist.HA576a21; “ἱ. ἐπ᾽ ὄνου” Luc.Bacch.2; of a people, “ἱππεύει ταῦτα τὰ ἔθνη” Hdt.7.84, cf. 87:—also in Med., Id.1.27,79.
2. metaph., of the wind, “ζεφύρου πνοαῖς ἱππεύσαντος” E.Ph.212 (lyr.); “σελάνα ἱππεύουσα δι᾽ ὀρφναίας” Id.Supp.994 (lyr.); also, rush, “πρὸς φόνον” Id.HF1001.
II. serve in the cavalry, Lys.14.7, X.HG3.1.4, Pl.Lg.756b, etc.
2. at Rome, to be an eques, D.C. 49.12; τὸ -εῦον the ordo equester, Id.60.7.
III. of a horse, as we say 'the horse rides (i.e. carries his rider) well', X.Eq.1.6,3.4, 10.3.
IV. drive a team, Ar.Nu.1406.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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