ἱππεῖς (hippeis)

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

Found 892 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Camillus 23.6: … νυκτὸς ἀπέδρασαν ἐκ τοῦ χάρακος οὐ πολλοί, τούτους μεθʼ ἡμέραν σποράδας ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ διαφερομένους ἐπελαύνοντες ἱππεῖς διέφθειρον.

Lucian of Samosata, Toxaris vel amicitia 48: … ὶ ἔνορκον ὄν· τὸ γὰρ ἐπιβῆναι τῆς βύρσης ὅρκος ἐστίν. ὁ μὲν οὖν Ἀρσακόμας ἐν τούτοις ἦν, καὶ ἠθροίσθησαν αὐτῷ ἱππεὶς μὲν ἀμφὶ τοὺς πεντακισχιλίους, ὁπλῖται δὲ καὶ πεζοὶ συναμφότεροι δισμύριοι.

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.