hippocampus
hippŏcampus or -os, i, m., = ἱππόκαμπος,
- a sea-horse: Syngnathus hippocampus, Linn.; Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 149; 32, 7, 23, § 67; 32, 9, 30, § 93; 36, 5, 4, § 26; Naev. and Lucil. ap. Non. 120, 17 and 19.
hippŏcampus (-ŏs), ī, m. , (ἱππόκαμπος), hippocampe [cheval marin] : Plin. 32, 67 ; 32, 149.
Hippocampus
(ἱπποκάμπος). A fabulous animal, having the fore-quarters and body of a horse, but ending in the tail of a fish, like the following illustration, from a Pompeian painting, which the poets and artists of antiquity commonly attach to the marine car of Neptune and the Tritons. See Naev. and Lucil. ap. Non. s. v. p. 120.