ἱππάς

A. a riding-dress, Hdt. 1.80; = Lat. equester, ἱ. ἐσθής D.C. 38.14.

II. as Subst., ἡ ἱ. (sc. τάξις) the order of knights (ἱππεῖς) at Athens, Arist. Pol. 1274a21; θυσίαι, βοῦς ἱππάδες of sacrifices offered by the knights, Hsch.; πύλαι ἱ., name of a gate at Athens, Plu. 2.849c.

2. knights' tax, ἱππάδα τελεῖν Is. 7.39, Arist. Ath. 7.4, Plu. Sol. 18; θητικοῦ ἀντὶ τέλους ἱππάδ’ ἀμειψάμενος Epigr. ap. Arist. Ath.l.c.

3. at Rome,= ordo equester, D.C. 40.57,al.; in full ἡ ἱ. τάξις Hdn. 5.1.5.

4. a boy's game, Poll. 9.122.

5. = ἵππος,ἡ, mare, Opp. C. 1.162, Hippiatr. 14, BGU 21iii 8 (iv A.D.).