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Headword:
Hamippoi
Adler number: alpha,1600
Translated headword: horse-attached
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A
xynoris, he says,[1] was the term in the old days for two horses yoked at the necks. On the one there was a driver, and on the other a hoplite. And now they are used, on official duties, by the Alibyes, who are also called Zeugnitai.[2] The same thing is also called
a(/mippon. Thus
Thucydides [uses the term].[3]
Hamippoi: xunôris, phêsi, kata to palaion elegeto duo hippoi sunezeugmenoi tôn trachêlôn. ên d' epi men tou heterou hêniochos, epi de tou heterou hoplitês. kai nun de chrôntai peri archês Alibues, hoi prosagoreuomenoi Zeugnitai. to de auto kai hamippon kaleitai. houtôs Thoukudidês.
Notes:
Similar material (already at
alpha 1213) in
Photius and elsewhere. See also
alpha 1601, and generally Jacoby on
Philochorus, FGrH 328 F71.
[1] Or (and surely preferably) "they say", a mss variant rejected by Adler.
[2] "It seems to be the name of a people which, however, occurs neither in Steph. Byz. nor elsewhere" (Jacoby).
[3]
Thucydides 5.57.2, web address 1.
Web address 1
Keywords: chronology; definition; geography; historiography; military affairs; science and technology; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 4 August 2000@21:03:37.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; augmented notes) on 29 January 2001@06:30:04.
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 17 July 2002@11:20:32.
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 1 August 2006@07:46:38.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 15 February 2012@05:38:03.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 17 February 2012@01:18:13.
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