单词 | hipparchy |
释义 | hipparchyn. 1. Ancient Greek History. a. A unit of cavalry, spec. one consisting of 512 horses and their riders. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > ancient Greek unit hipparchy1616 lochos1616 mora1808 taxis1850 phyle1906 1616 J. Bingham in tr. Ælian Tactiks xx. 111 Two Troopes are called an Epilarchy of 128 horse. Two Epilarchies a Tarentinarchy of 256 horse. Two Tarentinarchies an Hipparchy of 512. Two Hipparchies an ephipparchy of 1024 horse. 1683 J. Turner Pallas Armata i. ix. 26 It had been convenient for us to have known..whether..the Hipparchies (which were Regiments of Horse) changed day about, or if they march'd constantly in one place according to their Antiquity or Precedency. 1817 J. M. O'Connor tr. S. F. Gay de Vernon Treat Sci. War & Fortification I. i. 68 The isle was the unit of force; eight isles constituted an hipparchy [Fr. une hipparkie] or corps of 512 combatants. 1890 T. A. Dodge Alexander xii. 156 With its full complement of cavalry, one hipparchy on each flank.., the simple phalanx would cover something like a quarter of a mile. 1963 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 83 30 It seems to me to strain belief to suppose that Coenus alternated between commanding a hipparchy and his old battalion of foot. 2004 E. M. Anson Eumenes of Cardia iv. 108 Eumenes..placed two hipparchies of his Cappadocian cavalry..on his left. b. The period of office of a hipparch (hipparch n.); the office, position, or rank of a hipparch. ΚΠ 1903 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 7 35 It is..probable that we are dealing with the hipparchy of Polybius, for he was chosen hipparch of the Achaean league at this time, and Archon was made general. 1995 Classical Rev. 45 313 This office was a separate magistracy, additional to the normal two hipparchies, created in the mid-fourth century. 2009 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 139 376 If we assign Asylia 67 to 206/5, then we must move not only Agelaos's second stratêgia to that date but also the hipparchy of Polemarchos. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] horsemanship1566 hipponomy1618 hipparchy1631 horse-keeping1777 peonage1844 horse-mastership1904 stablecraft1931 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xiv. 109 He [sc. an ostler at an inn] speakes in his Ostrie (the chiefe seate of his Hypparchie) like a Frog in a Well, or a Cricket in a Wall. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1616 |
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