hippoi

[1609] Basil uses the classical greek form hoi potamioi hippoi, as in

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

The Indians hunt the _hippoi_; and when they catch them, they tame them, and put bridles on their heads, and bits in their mouths, and saddles on their backs, and ride on them.

Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. Richard Green Parker 1833

The noise which _hippoi_ make is a very strange noise, and when they make it they are said to neigh (_pronounced na_).

Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. Richard Green Parker 1833

A carriage, with four white _hippoi_, has just passed by the window, and one of the _hippoi_ has dropped his shoe.

Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. Richard Green Parker 1833

Now, from these sentences, I think you will see that _hippoi_ does not mean cows, or goats, or sheep, or deer; and I do not think it necessary to tell you anything more about it, except that it is a word that was spoken by the Corinthians and the Colossians and the Ephesians, the people to whom St. Paul addressed those epistles or letters in the

Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. Richard Green Parker 1833

The hoofs of cows and goats and sheep and deer are cloven; that is, they are split into two parts; but the hoofs of _hippoi_ are not split or cloven, and for that reason they are called whole-hoofed animals.

Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. Richard Green Parker 1833

In California, and in Mexico, and in most parts of South America, there are many wild _hippoi_, which feed on the grass that grows wild there.

Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. Richard Green Parker 1833