ἱππαγρέται
ἱππαγρέται, Spartan officers who chose king’s bodyguard
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ἱππαγρετῶν masculine genitive plural of ἱππαγρέται
ἱππ-αγρέται, ῶν, οἱ, (ἀγρέω) three officers at Lacedaemon,
- who chose 300, the flower of the ἔφηβοι, to serve as a body-guard for the kings (v. ἱππεύς II.1), X. HG 3.3.9, Lac. 4.3, Archyt. ap. Stob. 4.1.138: sg., Th. 4.38 (unless it be pr. n.).
ἱππ·αγρέται, ῶν (οἱ) les trois commandants du corps de cavalerie attaché à la personne du roi de Sparte en temps de guerre, Xén. Hell. 3, 3, 9 ; Lac. 4, 3 ; Archyt. (Stob. 269, 4).
Étym. ἵππος, ἀγείρω.
ἱππαγρέται, οἱ, drei Anführer der berittenen Leibwache der spartanischen Könige im Kriege, die aus 300 Epheben bestand, Xen. Hell. 3.3.9, Lac. 4.3 ; Archyt. Stob. fl. 43.134.
ἱππαγρέται
from ἶπος
ἀγείρω
- three officers at Lacedaemon, who chose 300 ἔφηβοι, to serve as a bodyguard for the kings, Xen.