ἵππος
ἵππος,
ὁ,
A). 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.,
ἵπποι team of chariot-horses,
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.
111 ,
163 ;
ἵππων ἐπιβησόμενος intending 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 riders,
νῶθ’ ἵππων ἐπιβάντες ἐθύνεον Hes. Sc. 286 ; freq. of race-horses,
ἵ. ἀκαμαντόποδες Pi. O. 3.4 ;
ἀελλόποδες Simon. 7 ;
ἀθληταί Lys. 19.63 : metaph.,
ἁλὸς ἵ., of ships,
Od. 4.708 , cf.
Secund. Sent. 17 .
4). perh. an instrument of torture, Lat.
eculeus,
Plu. Luc. 20 (pl.).
II). as Collective Noun,
ἵππος,,
horse, cavalry,
ἡ τῶν Θεσσαλῶν ἵ.
Hdt. 5.64 , etc.: always in sg., even with numerals,
ἵ. 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 .
b). pudenda muliebria et virilia, Hsch.
V). a complaint of the eyes, such that they are always winking, Gal. 16.611 ,al. (also in Hp., acc. to [ Gal.] 19.436 ).
VI). title of ministrants ('chuckersout') in certain religious ceremonies, IG 22.1368.144 (Athens, ii A.D.), 3.1280a .
VII). in compds., to express anything large or coarse, as in our horse-chestnut, horse-laugh, v. ἱππό-κρημνος, -λάπαθον, -μάραθον, -πορνος, -σέλινον, -τυφία , and cf. βου-. (From ἴκvος, 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. Λεύκ-ιππος, Γλαύκ-ιππος.)
ShortDef
a horse, mare
Hippus
Debugging
Headword (normalized):
ἵππος
Headword (normalized/stripped):
ιππος
URN:
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionary-entries.atlas_v1:lsj-50821
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{'content': '<div class="entry"> <span class="orth greek">ἵππος</span>, <span class="gen greek">ὁ</span>, <div style="margin-top: 1.0em;" class="sense depth-1"> <span><strong>A).</strong></span> <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">horse</span>, <span class="gen greek">ἡ</span>, <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">mare</span>, most freq. fem. in Poets; in full <span class="quote greek">θήλεες ἵπποι</span> <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc1:5:269" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc2:5.269/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Il.</span> 5.269 </a> ; <span class="quote greek">ἵπποι θήλειαι</span> <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc1:11:680" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc2:11.680/canonical-url/"> 11.680 </a> , <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-grc1:4:635" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-grc2:4.635/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Od.</span> 4.635 </a>; <span class="quote greek">ἄρσενες ἵπποι</span> <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-grc1:13:81" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-grc2:13.81/canonical-url/"> 13.81 </a> , cf. <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-grc1:3:86" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-grc1:3.86/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Hdt.</span> 3.86 </a>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg025:288b" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg025:288b/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Pl.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Hp.Ma.</span> 288b </a>: pl., <span class="foreign greek">ἵπποι</span> <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">team of chariot-horses</span>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc1:16:370" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc2:16.370/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Il.</span> 16.370 </a>, al.: freq. in dual, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc1:5:237" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc2:5.237/canonical-url/"> 5.237 </a>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc1:8:41" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc2:8.41/canonical-url/"> 8.41 </a>, al.: hence, of <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">the chariot</span> itself, <span class="foreign greek">ἀφ’ ἵπποιιν, ἀφ’ ἵππων</span>, from <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">the chariot</span>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc1:5:13" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc2:5.13/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Il.</span> 5.13 </a>,<a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc1:19" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc2:19/canonical-url/"> 19 </a>,al.; <span class="foreign greek">καθ’ ἵππων ἆλτο, ἐξ ἵππων βῆσε</span>, ib.<a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc1:111" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc2:111/canonical-url/"> 111 </a>,<a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc1:163" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc2:163/canonical-url/"> 163 </a>; <span class="foreign greek">ἵππων ἐπιβησόμενος</span> intending to mount <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">his chariot</span>, ib.<a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc1:46" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc2:46/canonical-url/"> 46 </a>; opp. <span class="quote greek">πεζοί, πλῆτο δὲ πᾶν πεδίον πεζῶν τε καὶ ἵππων</span> <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-grc1:14:267" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-grc2:14.267/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Od.</span> 14.267 </a> , cf. <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-grc1:9:49" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-grc2:9.49/canonical-url/"> 9.49 </a>; <span class="quote greek">ἵπποι τε καὶ ἀνέρες</span> <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc1:2:554" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc2:2.554/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Il.</span> 2.554 </a> ; <span class="quote greek">λαός τε καὶ ἵπποι</span> <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc1:18:153" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc2:18.153/canonical-url/"> 18.153 </a> ; of riders, <span class="quote greek">νῶθ’ ἵππων ἐπιβάντες ἐθύνεον</span> <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg003.perseus-grc1:286" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg003.perseus-grc1:286/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Hes.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Sc.</span> 286 </a> ; freq. of race-horses, <span class="quote greek">ἵ. ἀκαμαντόποδες</span> <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0033.tlg001.perseus-grc1:3:4" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0033.tlg001.perseus-grc1:3.4/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Pi.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">O.</span> 3.4 </a> ; <span class="quote greek">ἀελλόποδες</span> <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0261.tlg001:7" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0261.tlg001:7/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Simon.</span> 7 </a> ; <span class="quote greek">ἀθληταί</span> <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0540.tlg019.perseus-grc1:63" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0540.tlg019.perseus-grc1:63/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lys.</span> 19.63 </a> : metaph., <span class="foreign greek">ἁλὸς ἵ</span>., of ships, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-grc1:4:708" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-grc2:4.708/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Od.</span> 4.708 </a>, cf. <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1521.tlg002:17" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1521.tlg002:17/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Secund.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Sent.</span> 17 </a>. </div> <div style="margin-top: 1.0em;" class="sense depth-3"> <span><strong>2).</strong></span> the constellation <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Pegasus</span>, <span class="bibl"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Eudox.</span> </span> ap. <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1431.tlg001:1:2:12" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1431.tlg001:1:2:12/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Hipparch.</span> 1.2.12 </a>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0363.tlg007:27" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0363.tlg007:27/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Ptol.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Tetr.</span> 27 </a>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1764.tlg001:12:11" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1764.tlg001:12.11/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Vett.Val.</span> 12.11 </a>. </div> <div style="margin-top: 1.0em;" class="sense depth-3"> <span><strong>3).</strong></span> title of Hecate in the Mithraic cult, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2034.tlg003:4:16" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2034.tlg003:4.16/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Porph.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Abst.</span> 4.16 </a>. </div> <div style="margin-top: 1.0em;" class="sense depth-3"> <span><strong>4).</strong></span> perh. an instrument of torture, Lat. <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">eculeus</span>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg036:20" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg036:20/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Plu.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Luc.</span> 20 </a>(pl.). </div> <div style="margin-top: 1.0em;" class="sense depth-2"> <span><strong>II).</strong></span> as Collective Noun, <span class="foreign greek">ἵππος,</span>, <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">horse, cavalry</span>, <span class="foreign greek">ἡ τῶν Θεσσαλῶν ἵ</span>. <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-grc1:5:64" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-grc1:5.64/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Hdt.</span> 5.64 </a>, etc.: always in sg., even with numerals, <span class="foreign greek">ἵ. χιλίη</span> a thousand <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">horse</span>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-grc1:7:41" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-grc1:7.41/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Id.</span> 7.41 </a>; <span class="foreign greek">μυρίη</span> ibid.; <span class="foreign greek">μυρία, τρισμυρία</span>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg002.perseus-grc1:302" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg002.perseus-grc1:302/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">A.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Pers.</span> 302 </a>,<a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg002.perseus-grc1:315" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg002.perseus-grc1:315/canonical-url/"> 315 </a>; <span class="foreign greek">ἡ διακοσία ἵ</span>. <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.perseus-grc1:1:62" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.perseus-grc1:1.62/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Th.</span> 1.62 </a>; <span class="quote greek">ἵππον ἔχω εἰς χιλίαν</span> <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032.tlg007.perseus-grc1:4:6:2" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032.tlg007.perseus-grc1:4:6:2/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">X.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Cyr.</span> 4.6.2 </a> . </div> <div style="margin-top: 1.0em;" class="sense depth-2"> <span><strong>III).</strong></span> <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">a sea-fish</span>, <span class="bibl"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Antim.</span> </span> et <span class="bibl"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Numen.</span> </span> ap. <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0008.tlg001.perseus-grc1:7:304e" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0008.tlg001.perseus-grc1:7.304e/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Ath.</span> 7.304e </a>; but <span class="foreign greek">ὁ ἵ. ὁ ποτάμιος</span> <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">the hippopotamus</span>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-grc1:2:71" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-grc1:2.71/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Hdt.</span> 2.71 </a>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg014:502a:9" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg014:502a.9/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Arist.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">HA</span> 502a9 </a>; <span class="quote greek">ὁ ἵ. τοῦ Νείλου</span> <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0532.tlg001.perseus-grc1:4:2" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0532.tlg001.perseus-grc1:4.2/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Ach.Tat.</span> 4.2 </a> . </div> <div style="margin-top: 1.0em;" class="sense depth-2"> <span><strong>IV).</strong></span> <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">lewd woman</span>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0545.tlg001:4:11" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0545.tlg001:4.11/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Ael.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">NA</span> 4.11 </a>. </div> <div style="margin-top: 1.0em;" class="sense depth-4"> <span><strong>b).</strong></span> <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">pudenda muliebria et virilia</span>, <span class="bibl"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Hsch.</span> </span> </div> <div style="margin-top: 1.0em;" class="sense depth-2"> <span><strong>V).</strong></span> <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">a complaint of the eyes</span>, such that they are always winking, <span class="bibl"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Gal.</span> 16.611 </span>,al. (also in <span class="bibl"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Hp.</span></span>, acc. to [<span class="bibl"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Gal.</span></span>]<span class="bibl"> 19.436 </span>). </div> <div style="margin-top: 1.0em;" class="sense depth-2"> <span><strong>VI).</strong></span> title of ministrants (\'chuckersout\') in certain religious ceremonies, <span class="bibl"> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">IG</span> 22.1368.144 </span> (Athens, ii A.D.), <span class="bibl"> 3.1280a </span>. </div> <div style="margin-top: 1.0em;" class="sense depth-2"> <span><strong>VII).</strong></span> in compds., to express <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">anything large</span> or <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">coarse</span>, as in our <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">horse-chestnut, horse-laugh</span>, v. <span class="ref greek">ἱππό-κρημνος, -λάπαθον, -μάραθον, -πορνος, -σέλινον, -τυφία</span> , and cf. <span class="foreign greek">βου-</span>. (From <span class="foreign greek">ἴκvος</span>, v. <span class="ref greek">ἴκκος</span> ; cf. Skt. <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">aśvas</span>, Lat. <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">equus</span>: the <span class="foreign greek">ἴ-</span> (in place of <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">e-</span>) and the aspirate are unexplained; the latter acc. to <span class="bibl"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Gell.</span> 2.3.2 </span> was confined to Attic; cf. <span class="foreign greek">Λεύκ-ιππος, Γλαύκ-ιππος</span>.)</div> </div><br><br>'}