ἡνίοχ-ος,
Doric dialect and Aeolic dialect ἀν- [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.50 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (variant{ἁν-} as in [[ “N.” 6.66, but compare ἀνιοχίω), 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 20a. 19 ] Refs 7th c.BC+], ὁ: (ἡνία, ἔχω):—one who holds the reins, driver, charioteer, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.89, etc.: sometimes opposed to παραιβάτης, 23.132; ἡ. θεράπων 5.580, 8.119 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; παρεβεβήκεε δέ οἱ ἡ. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.40. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 generally, chariot-driver, as in the games, etc., [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.50, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 905 (_plural_), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.2.21, Pl “Phdr.” 254b, “PPetr.” 3p.180 (_plural_, 3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; ὑποπτέρων ἵππων ἡ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 116e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2.b rider, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 260. ] Refs 6th c.BC+]
__3 ὁ ἡ. τῆς νεώς the helmsman, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 1.98. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__4 metaphorically, one who guides, governs, χειρῶν καὶ ἰσχύος ἀ. [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.66 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παλαισμοσύνας δεξιὸς ἡ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 149; ἡ. τέχνης τραγικῆς “IG” 2.2263 (4th c.BC); παντοίης ἀρετῆς [prev. work]7.2539.2 (from Thebes)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ. κιθάρας, of a harper, epigram cited in [[ 5th c.AD(?): Stephanus Byzantius see at {Μίλητος}: _feminine_, αἰγίδος ἡ., of Athena, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 602 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in Prose with οἷον prefixed, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 266e, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of love, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.759d, 4th-3rd c.BC: Hermesianax Elegiacus 7.84. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]