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τέθριππος , ον, (τέτταρα, ἵππος)
A.with four horses yoked abreast, “ἅρμα” Pi.I.1.14; “ζεῦγος” A.Fr.346; “ὄχος” E.Hipp.1212; “τ. ἡλίου σέλας” Id.El.866; τ. ἅμιλλαι chariot-races, Id.Hel.386; of the charioteer, “οἱ Λυδοὶ ἐπὶ Πέλοπος τέθριπποι . . ἦσαν [καὶ] ἤδη ἁρματῖται” Philostr.Im.1.17 (καὶ secl. Schenkl).
II. τέθριππον (sc. ἅρμα), τό, four-horse chariot, Pi.O.2.50, Hdt.6.103, E.Alc.428, Pl.Ly.205c, etc.; τ. ἵππων a team of four abreast, Ar.Nu.1407: pl., of a single chariot, Pi.P.1.59, E.HF177.
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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