Hippicon
ἱππικόν
Hippicon (ἱππικόν, sc. στάδιον), a Greek measure of distance, equal to four stadia. According to Plutarch, it was mentioned in the laws of Solon (Plut. Sol. 23). Hesychius also mentions it under the name of ἵππειος δρόμος. (Comp. HIPPODROMUS; STADIUM.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.