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ἱππικός , ή, όν, (ἵππος)
A.of a horse or horses, freq. in Trag., “ἱ. ἐκ πλευμόνων” A.Th.61; ἱ. φρυάγματα ib.245, cf. S.El.717, 719; ὀχήματα, ἄντυγες, ib.740, Aj.1030; “φάτναι” E.Ba.509.
2. of horsemen or chariots, “ἀγών” Hdt.1.167, And.4.26 (pl.); in “ἱππικῶν ἀγών” S.El.698, ἱππικῶν is prob. neut. (v. infr. iv); δρόμος ib.754; ναυάγια ib.730; “ἆθλον” Pl.Lg.949a.
3. = Lat. equester, τάξις, ἀξίωμα, D.H.12.1, Plu.Pomp.23; of persons, of equestrian rank, “ἱ. ἄνδρες” Str.3.4.20, cf. IGRom.3.474 (Lycia, iii A.D.), etc.
II. of riding or horsemanship, equestrian, X.HG5.3.20; ἱ. ἄσκησις training in horsemanship, IG22.1042.21, al.; ἱ. ἡγήτωρ leader of the knights, ib.3.693; skilled in riding, opp. ἄφιππος, Pl.Prt.350a, al.: Comp., Satyr.1, Phld.Mus.p.6 K.: Sup., Arr.Tact.16.9.
2. ἡ -κή (sc. τέχνη), horsemanship, riding, Ar.Nu.27, etc.; περὶ -κῆς, title of treatise by Xenophon; “ἱ. ἐπιστήμη” Pl.La.193b; “ἱ. λόγοι” X.HG5.3.20; τὰ ἱ. [πράγματα] Pl. Alc.1.124e, cf. Thg.126a; ἡ ἐμὴ ἱ. this riding of mine, Lys.24.10.
III. fit for riding, Sup. “-ώτατον, χρῆμα γυνή” Ar.Lys. 677.
IV. τὸ ἱ. the horse, cavalry, Hdt.7.87, E.Supp.682, X.An. 6.5.29, etc.; τὰ ἱ. Plb.3.114.5.
2. course or space of four stadia, Plu.Sol.23.
b. the circus at Rome, Tab.Defix.Aud.187.59.
V. Adv. -κῶς like a horseman: Sup. -κώτατα with best horsemanship, X. Oec.21.7.
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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