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hipparch
/ ˈhɪpɑːk /
noun
- (in ancient Greece) a cavalry commander
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hipparch1
C17: from Greek hippos horse + -arch
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Example Sentences
The following conversation with a youth who had just been elected hipparch (or commandant of cavalry), I can also vouch for.
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The two kings now sent to beg for aid; and asked that Lycortas should come as commander-in-chief, and Polybius as hipparch.
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When the hipparch led Hermon into this place a number of people had already assembled there.
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Yet as soon as Hermon, leaning on the young hipparch's arm, approached her, she rose and cordially extended both hands to him.
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It was the young hipparch who had studied in Athens and accompanied the commandant of Pelusium to Tennis the year before.
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