ἵππος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[horse]], ἡ, [[mare]], most freq. fem. in Poets; in full θήλεες ἵπποι <span class="bibl">Il.5.269</span>; ἵπποι θήλειαι <span class="bibl">11.680</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.4.635</span>; ἄρσενες ἵπποι <span class="bibl">13.81</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.86</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Hp.Ma.</span>288b</span>: pl., [[ἵπποι]] [[team of chariot-horses]], <span class="bibl">Il.16.370</span>, al.: freq. in dual, <span class="bibl">5.237</span>, <span class="bibl">8.41</span>, al.: hence, of the [[chariot]] itself, [[ἀφ' ἵπποιιν]], [[ἀφ' ἵππων]], [[from the chariot]], <span class="bibl">Il.5.13</span>,<span class="bibl">19</span>,al.; [[καθ' ἵππων ἆλτο]], [[ἐξ ἵππων βῆσε]], ib.''111'',<span class="bibl">163</span>; ἵππων [[ἐπιβησόμενος]] = [[intend]]ing to [[mount]] his [[chariot]], ib.<span class="bibl">46</span>; opp. πεζοί, πλῆτο δὲ πᾶν πεδίον πεζῶν τε καὶ ἵππων <span class="bibl">Od.14.267</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">9.49</span>; ἵπποι τε καὶ ἀνέρες <span class="bibl">Il.2.554</span>; λαός τε καὶ ἵπποι <span class="bibl">18.153</span>; of riders, νῶθ' ἵππων ἐπιβάντες ἐθύνεον <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Sc.</span>286</span>; freq. of race-horses, ἵ. ἀκαμαντόποδες <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>3.4</span>; ἀελλόποδες <span class="bibl">Simon.7</span>; ἀθληταί <span class="bibl">Lys.19.63</span>: metaph., ἁλὸς ἵππος, of ships, <span class="bibl">Od.4.708</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Secund. <span class="title">Sent.</span>17</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> the constellation <span class="title">Pegasus</span>, Eudox. ap. <span class="bibl">Hipparch.1.2.12</span>, <span class="bibl">Ptol.<span class="title">Tetr.</span>27</span>, <span class="bibl">Vett.Val.12.11</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> title of Hecate in the Mithraic cult, <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Abst.</span>4.16</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> perh. an instrument of torture, Lat. [[eculeus]], <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Luc.</span>20</span>(pl.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> as Collective Noun, [[ἵππος]], ἡ</b>, [[horse]], [[cavalry]], ἡ τῶν Θεσσαλῶν ἵππος. <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.64</span>, etc.: always in sg., even with numerals, [[ἵππος χιλίη]] = a [[thousand]] [[horse]], <span class="bibl">Id.7.41</span>; [[μυρίη]] ibid.; [[μυρία]], [[τρισμυρία]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>302</span>,<span class="bibl">315</span>; ἡ διακοσία ἵ. <span class="bibl">Th.1.62</span>; ἵππον ἔχω εἰς χιλίαν <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>4.6.2</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> a [[sea]]-[[fish]], Antim. et Numen. ap. <span class="bibl">Ath. 7.304e</span>; but [[ὁ ἵππος ὁ ποτάμιος]] the [[hippopotamus]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.71</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span> 502a9</span>; ὁ ἵ. τοῦ Νείλου <span class="bibl">Ach.Tat.4.2</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> [[lewd woman]], <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span> 4.11</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> [[pudendum muliebre]] and [[pudendum virile]], Hsch. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">V</span> a [[complaint]] of the [[eye]]s, such that they are always [[wink]]ing, Gal.16.611,al. (also in Hp., acc. to [Gal.]19.436). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VI</span> title of [[ministrant]]s ('[[chuckerout]], [[chucker-out]]') in certain [[religious]] ceremonies, <span class="title">IG</span>22.1368.144 (Athens, ii A.D.), 3.1280a. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VII</span> in compds., to express anything [[large]] or [[coarse]], as in our [[horse-chestnut]], [[horse-laugh]], v. [[ἱππόκρημνος]], [[ἱππολάπαθον]], [[ἱππομάραθον]], [[ἱππόπορνος]], [[ἱπποσέλινον]], [[ἱπποτυφία]], and cf. [[βου-]]. (From [[ἴκϝος]], v. [[ἴκκος]]; cf. Skt. [[aśvas]], Lat. [[equus]]: the [ἴ- (in place of e-) and the aspirate are unexplained; the latter acc. to Gell.2.3.2 was confined to Attic; cf. [[Λεύκιππος]], [[Γλαύκιππος]].)</span>