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Hippo

Hippo · m

the name of several cities

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Where it lives

Hamilcar 1 · 19.34/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 29 4 · 3.26/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 9 · 1.95/10k
De Bello Africo 1 · 0.77/10k
Jugurtha 1 · 0.47/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Ab urbe condita 4 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Hippo — Lewis & Short

Hippo, ōnis, m., = *(ippw/n,

I the name of several cities.

I A city of Numidia, also with the surname of regius, Gr. *(ippw\n basiliko/s, afterwards a bishop's see, now Bonah, Mel. 1, 7, 1; Liv. 29, 3, 7; Sil. 3, 259.—

II Hippo Diarrhytus, *(ippw\n dia/rrutos, a city of Zeugitana, west of Utica, now Ben Zert, Plin. 5, 4, 3, § 23; 9, 8, 8, § 26; Sol. 27 med. —

B Deriv.: Hippōnensis, e, adj., of or belonging to Hippo: sinus, Mel. 1, 7, 2; Plin. 5, 4, 3, § 23: colonia, Plin. Ep. 9, 33, 2. —Subst.: Hippōnenses, ium, m. plur., the inhabitants of Hippo, Plin. 9, 8, 8, § 26. —

III A city of Hispania Tarraconensis, near Toletum, Liv. 39, 30.—

IV The previous name of Vibo, in the territory of the Bruttii, Mel. 2, 4, 9; Plin. 3, 5, 10, § 73.

In the wild

Hipponis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.8.p2
Hipponem Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 11.4
Hipponem Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 25.3
Hipponem Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 55.7
Hippon Tertullian, De Anima 5
Hipponem Sallust, Jugurtha 18.p1

6 of 24 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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