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ἵππους (hippous)

ἵππους is an Ancient Greek form of ἵππος, meaning “horse, mare; (pl.) chariot, cavalry”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 784 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.755: τὸν δὲ μεταδρομάδην ἐπὶ Μυρτίλος ἤλασεν ἵππους,

Strabo, Geography 14.1.31: … λιοι. κατὰ μέσον δέ που τὸν περίπλουν αἱ Ἐρυθραί, πόλις Ἰωνικὴ λιμένα ἔχουσα καὶ νησῖδας προκειμένας τέτταρας Ἵππους καλουμένας.

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 1.15.73: … συνοικήσασα Αἰόλῳ ἐδιδάξατο αὐτὸν τὴν φυσικὴν θεωρίαν, τὴν πάτριον ἐπιστήμην. μαρτυρεῖ καὶ Εὐριπίδης περὶ τῆς Ἱπποῦς ὧδέ πως· ἣ πρῶτα μὲν τὰ θεῖα προὐμαντεύσατο χρησμοῖσι σαφέσιν ἀστέρων ἐπ’ ἀντολαῖς. παρὰ τῷ Αἰόλῳ τούτῳ Ὀδυσσ …

All forms of ἵππος (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.