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ἱππικήν (hippiken)

ἱππικήν is an Ancient Greek form of ἱππικός, meaning “of horses; cavalry”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Eumenes 4.2: … ιν αὐτὸς δὲ τὴν φάλαγγα τῶν Μακεδόνων ἐπηρμένην καὶ θρασεῖαν εὑρών, ὥσπερ ἀντίταγμα κατεσκεύαζεν αὐτῇ δύναμιν ἱππικήν, τῶν μὲν ἐγχωρίων τοῖς ἱππεύειν δυναμένοις ἀνεισφορίας διδοὺς καὶ ἀτελείας,

Aristophanes, Lysistrata 676: ἢν δʼ ἐφʼ ἱππικὴν τράπωνται, διαγράφω τοὺς ἱππέας.

All forms of ἱππικός (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.