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hipparch
/ ˈhɪpɑːk /
noun
- (in ancient Greece) a cavalry commander
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hipparch1
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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.
The two kings now sent to beg for aid; and asked that Lycortas should come as commander-in-chief, and Polybius as hipparch.
When the hipparch led Hermon into this place a number of people had already assembled there.
Yet as soon as Hermon, leaning on the young hipparch's arm, approached her, she rose and cordially extended both hands to him.
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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