ἱππέων (hippeon)

ἱππέων is an Ancient Greek form of ἱππεύς, meaning “horseman, cavalryman”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 906 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.19.2: καὶ καθεζόμενοι ἔτεμνον πρῶτον μὲν Ἐλευσῖνα καὶ τὸ Θριάσιον πεδίον καὶ τροπήν τινα τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἱππέων περὶ τοὺς Ῥείτους καλουμένους ἐποιήσαντο· ἔπειτα προυχώρουν ἐν δεξιᾷ ἔχοντες τὸ Αἰγάλεων ὄρος διὰ Κρωπιᾶς, ἕω …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 2.18: … τονεῖν τὸν θεόν.’ καὶ ὁ λαὸς ἀκούσας ταῦτα σαλπίζων ἀνηγόρευε βασιλέα τὸν Ἰηοῦν. ὁ δὲ αὐτίκα τοὺς λογάδας τῶν ἰππέων παραλαβὼν ἐξώρμησεν, ἵν ἀθρόον ἐπέλθῃ τοῖς περὶ τὸν Ἰωράμ. τοῦ δὲ σκοποῦ τῷ Ἰωρὰμ ἱππεῖς ἥκειν φήσαντος, ἔστε …

All forms of ἱππεύς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.