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ἱππεύς

ἱππεύς, ἱππεύς, ἱππέως, ὁ, horseman

ἱππ-εύς, gen. έως (-έω dub. in Hsch.), Ep. ῆος, ὁ, (ἵππος)
  • one who fights from a chariot, Hom. (only in Il.), opp. πεζός, 2.810; either of the driver or of the hero who fights, 12.66, 15.270; also of one who drives in a chariot-race, 23.262.
      • 2 horseman, rider, cavalryman, ἰππήων στρότος Sapph. Supp. 5.1, cf. Hdt. 3.88, 9.49, A. Pers. 14 (anap.), Arist. Pol. 1270a29, etc.; τῆς πολιτείας ἱ. a public courier, Aristaenet. 1.26.
      • 3 groom, Class.Rev. 27.12 (Laodicea Combusta), 24.12, JHS 18.108 (near Lysias).
    • II ἱππεῖς, in social and political sense, knights, forming an aristocracy in early Greek communities, Arist. Pol. 1297b18, etc.; at Eretria, ib. 1306a35, Ath. 15.2; at Sparta, a royal bodyguard, Hdt. 8.124, cf. 1.67, etc.; esp. at Athens, the Second Class in Solonʼs constitution, Arist. Ath. 7.3; later, an aristocratic corps of cavalry, Ar. Eq. 225, And. 3.5, Philoch. 100, etc.
      • 2 of the Roman equites, D.S. 37.8, D.H. 4.24, App. BC 1.22, etc.; ἱππεὺς Ῥωμαίων,= Lat. eques Romanus, Mon.Anc.Gr. 7.17, IG 3.768a, IGRom. 3.204 (Ancyra), OGI 547.2 (ibid.), 645.7 (Palmyra), prob. in IGRom. 4.1213 (Thyatira).
    • III nimble kind of crab, Arist. HA 525b8.
    • IV kind of comet, Plin. HN 2.90, Lyd. Ost. 11.
    • V girlʼs ornament, Hsch., cf. Ostr. 323 (ii B.C.).
    • VI a measure, πυρῶν, ἀμυγδάλων, ἀλεύρων, Supp.Epigr. 2.710 (Pednelissus).

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