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hipparch Gr. Antiq.|ˈhɪpɑːk|
[ad. Gr. ἵππαρχος, f. ἵππος horse + -αρχος ruling, ruler.]
Commander of the horse; the title of officers appointed to command the cavalry in ancient Greece.
1656Blount Glossogr., Hipparch, the Master of the horses. 1832J. C. Hare in Philol. Museum I. 250 note, Callistratus, the son of Empedus, the hipparch. 1847Grote Greece ii. xxxi. IV. 182 There were now created..two hipparchs, for the supreme command of the horsemen.
So hipparchy [ad. Gr. ἱππαρχία the office of a ἵππαρχος], the rule or control of horses.
1631R. Brathwait Whimzies, Ostler 70 He speakes in his ostrie (the chiefe seate of his hypparchie) like a frog in a well. |