The corpus record

ἱππ-άσιμος

ippasimos

fit for horses, fit for riding

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Where it lives

Histories 4 · 0.22/10k
Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ἱππ-άσιμος · hipp-asimos — LSJ

fit for horses, fit for riding, to be ridden

fit for horses, fit for riding, Αἴγυπτον τὸ πρὶν ἐοῦσαν ἱππασίμην καὶ ἁμαξευομένην, opp. ἄνιππος, Hdt. 2.108, cf. 5.63, 9.13, X. Cyr. 1.4.14, Aen.Tact. 6.6, Plb. 10.49.5, Onos. 31.1, etc.; τὸ ἱππάσιμον, i.e. τὸ πεδινόν, X. HG 7.2.12; τὰ ἱ. τῆς χώρας ἄνιππα ποιεῖν Aen.Tact. 8.4: metaph., τοῖς κόλαξιν ἑαυτὸν ἀνεικὼς ἱππάσιμον allowing himself to be ridden by flatterers, Plu. Alex. 23.

In the wild

ἱππάσιμον · hippasimon Aristotle, Politics 1321a (DIORISIS sentence 2404)
ἱππασίμην · hippasimēn Herodotus, Histories 2.108.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2285)
ἱππάσιμον · hippasimon Herodotus, Histories 5.63.4 (DIORISIS sentence 5763)
ἱππασίμῳ · hippasimōi Herodotus, Histories 9.13.3 (DIORISIS sentence 9389)
ἱππασίμη · hippasimē Herodotus, Histories 9.13.3 (DIORISIS sentence 9388)
ἱππάσιμα · hippasima Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.4.14 (DIORISIS sentence 312)

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