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ἱππότης (A), ου, ὁ,
A.driver or rider of horses, horseman, knight, Hdt. 7.55,9.49,69; in Hom. always in Ep. nom. ἱππότα^, as Γερήνιος ἱππότα Νέστωρ Il.2.336, etc.; ἱππότης Κολωνός S.OC59; ἱππότης on horseback, Luc.Tox.47; τοὶ ἱππότη, Boeot. for οἱ ἱππεῖς, IG7.3087 (Lebad.), cf. Ascl.Tact.10.2.
II. Adj., “ἱππόται λαοί” Pi.P.4.153; ἱ. λεώς the horse, A.Th.80 (lyr.); “λεὼν ἄνιππον ἱ. τε” S.OC899; “ἱ. ὄχλος” E.Supp.660; “στρατός” Plu.Aem.9.—Never used in correct Att. Prose.
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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    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 80
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