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Headword: *(ippo/ths
Adler number: iota,581
Translated headword: horseman
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] cavalryman, horseback-rider.[1]
"He saw lying dead the horseman who was best and able to strike in action, lying with his horse."[2]
Greek Original:
*(ippo/ths: i(ppeu/s, e)/fippos. ei)=de nekro\n kei/menon i(ppo/thn a)/riston kai\ kata\ xei=ra plh=cai duna/menon, kei/menon au)tw=| i(/ppw|.
Notes:
[1] Epic/poetic noun; same glossing in other lexica.
[2] Quotation not identified by Adler but latterly claimed by Favuzzi for Aelian (and with Hannibal as the subject); see under epsilon 3944. (For the phrase "in action", kata\ xei=ra, see LSJ s.v. xei/r, II.6.h.)
Keywords: biography; definition; epic; historiography; military affairs; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 May 2006@18:18:26.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaked translation; augmented n.2 and keywords) on 29 May 2006@04:22:28.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; further expansion of n.2) on 29 May 2006@07:45:50.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; and n.2 again) on 9 October 2011@08:02:37.
David Whitehead on 14 January 2013@08:25:17.
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