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ἱππ-άς , άδος, ἡ, pecul.fem. of ἱππικός, ἱ. στολή
A.a riding-dress, Hdt. 1.80; = Lat. equester, “ἱ. ἐσθής” D.C.38.14.
II. as Subst., ἡ ἱ. (sc. τάξις) the order of knights (ἱππεῖς) at Athens, Arist.Pol.1274a21; θυσίαι, βοῦς ἱππάδες of sacrifices offered by the knights, Hsch.; πύλαι ἱ., name of a gate at Athens, Plu.2.849c.
2. knights' tax, “ἱππάδα τελεῖν” Is.7.39, Arist.Ath.7.4, Plu.Sol.18; θητικοῦ ἀντὶ τέλους ἱππάδ᾽ ἀμειψάμενος Epigr. ap. Arist.Ath.l.c.
3. at Rome,= ordo equester, D.C.40.57,al.; in full “ἡ ἱ. τάξις” Hdn.5.1.5.
4. a boy's game, Poll. 9.122.
5. = ἵππος, ἡ, mare, Opp.C.1.162, Hippiatr.14, BGU21iii 8 (iv A.D.).
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 7.4
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.80
    • Isaeus, Apollodorus, 39
    • Plutarch, Solon, 18
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 38.14
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 40.57
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