ἵππος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[horse]], ἡ, [[mare]], most freq. fem. in Poets; in full θήλεες ἵπποι Il.5.269; ἵπποι θήλειαι 11.680, Od.4.635; ἄρσενες ἵπποι 13.81, cf. Hdt.3.86, Pl.Hp.Ma.288b: pl., [[ἵππος|ἵπποι]] [[team]] of [[chariot]]-[[horse]]s, Il.16.370, al.: freq. in dual, 5.237, 8.41, al.: hence, of the [[chariot]] itself, [[ἀφ' ἵπποιιν]], [[ἀφ' ἵππων]], [[from the chariot]], Il.5.13,19,al.; [[καθ' ἵππων ἆλτο]], [[ἐξ ἵππων βῆσε]], ib.''III'',163; ἵππων [[ἐπιβησόμενος]] = [[intend]]ing to [[mount]] his [[chariot]], ib.46; opp. πεζοί, πλῆτο δὲ πᾶν πεδίον πεζῶν τε καὶ ἵππων Od.14.267, cf. 9.49; ἵπποι τε καὶ ἀνέρες Il.2.554; λαός τε καὶ ἵπποι 18.153; of [[rider]]s, νῶθ' ἵππων ἐπιβάντες ἐθύνεον Hes.Sc.286; freq. of [[race]]-[[horse]]s, ἵ. ἀκαμαντόποδες Pi.O.3.4; ἀελλόποδες Simon.7; ἀθληταί Lys.19.63: metaph., ἁλὸς [[ἵππος]], of [[ship]]s, Od.4.708, cf. Secund. Sent.17.<br><span class="bld">2</span> the [[constellation]] [[Pegasus]], Eudox. ap. Hipparch.1.2.12, Ptol.Tetr.27, Vett.Val.12.11.<br><span class="bld">3</span> title of [[Hecate]] in the [[Mithraic]] [[cult]], Porph.Abst.4.16.<br><span class="bld">4</span> perhaps an [[instrument]] of [[torture]], Lat. [[eculeus]], Plu.Luc.20(pl.).<br><span class="bld">II</span> as Collective Noun, [[ἵππος]], ἡ, [[horse]], [[cavalry]], ἡ τῶν Θεσσαλῶν ἵππος. Hdt.5.64, etc.: always in sg., even with numerals, [[ἵππος χιλίη]] = a [[thousand]] [[horse]], Id.7.41; [[μυρίη]] ibid.; [[μυρία]], [[τρισμυρία]], A.Pers.302,315; ἡ διακοσία ἵ. Th.1.62; ἵππον ἔχω εἰς χιλίαν X.Cyr.4.6.2.<br><span class="bld">III</span> a [[sea]]-[[fish]], Antim. et Numen. ap. Ath. 7.304e; but [[ὁ ἵππος ὁ ποτάμιος]] the [[hippopotamus]], Hdt.2.71, Arist.HA 502a9; ὁ ἵ. τοῦ Νείλου Ach.Tat.4.2.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> [[lewd]] [[woman]], Ael.NA 4.11.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[pudendum muliebre]] and [[pudendum virile]], [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]<br><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).<br><span class="bld">VI</span> title of [[ministrant]]s ('[[chuckerout]], [[chucker-out]]') in certain [[religious]] ceremonies, IG22.1368.144 (Athens, ii A.D.), 3.1280a.<br><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]].) [[File:Οἱ ἵπποι.jpg|right|thumb|500px|Οἱ ἵπποι [[χρεμετίζω|χρεμετίζουσιν]], ὁ [[πῶλος]]|alt=Οἱ ἵπποι]]