ἱππ-εύς,
genitive έως (-έω uncertain in [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)] Refs 5th c.AD+], Epic dialect ῆος, ὁ, (ἵππος) one who fights from a chariot, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (only in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”), opposed to πεζός, 2.810 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; either of the driver or of the hero who fights, [[ 12.66, 15.270 ] Refs]; also of one who drives in a chariot-race, [[ 23.262. ] Refs]
__2 horseman, rider, cavalryman, ἰππήων στρότος [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 5.1, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.88, 9.49, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 14 (_anapaest meter_), 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1270a29, etc.] Refs 7th c.BC+]; τῆς πολιτείας ἱ. a public courier, [[ 5th c.AD: Aristaenetus Rhetor 1.26. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__3 groom, Class.Rev.[[ 27.12 (Laodicea Combusta), 24.12, “JHS” 18.108 (near Lysias). ] Refs]
__II ἱππεῖς, in social and political sense, knights, forming an aristocracy in early Greek communities, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1297b18, etc.; at Eretria, [prev. work] 1306a35, “Ath.” 15.2 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; at Sparta, a royal bodyguard, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.124, compare 1.67, etc.; especially at Athens, the Second Class in Solon's constitution, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 7.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; later, an aristocratic corps of cavalry, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 225, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.5, 4th c.BC: Philochorus Historicus 100, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]