ἱππ-εύσ, gen. έως (-έω dub. in Hsch.), Ep. ῆοσ, ὁ, (ἵπποσ)
one who fights from a chariot
, Hom. (only in Il.), opp. πεζόσ, 2.810; either of
the driver
or of
the hero who fights
, 12.66, 15.270; also of
one who drives in a chariot-race
, 23.262. 2.
horseman, rider, cavalryman
, ἰππήων στρότοσSapph.Supp.5.1, cf. Hdt.3.88,9.49, A.Pers.14 (anap.), Arist.Pol.1270a29, etc.; τῆς πολιτείας ἱ. a public
courier
, Aristaenet.1.26. 3.
groom, Class.Rev.
27.12 (Laodicea Combusta), 24.12, JHS18.108 (near Lysias). II.ἱππεῖσ, in social and political sense,
knights
, forming an aristocracy in early Greek communities, Arist.Pol.1297b18, etc.; at Eretria, ib.1306a35, Ath. 15.2; at Sparta, a royal bodyguard, Hdt.8.124, cf. 1.67, etc.; esp. at Athens, the Second Class in Solon's constitution, Arist.Ath.7.3; later, an aristocratic corps of cavalry, Ar.Eq.225, And.3.5, Philoch. 100, etc. 2. of the Roman
equites
, D.S.37.8, D.H.4.24, App.BC1.22, etc.; ἱππεὺς Ῥωμαίων,= Lat.
eques Romanus,
Mon.Anc.Gr. 7.17, IG3.768a, IGRom.3.204 (Ancyra), OGI547.2 (ibid.), 645.7 (Palmyra), prob. in IGRom.4.1213 (Thyatira). III.