Hippobotae
ἱπποβόται
Hippobotae (ἱπποβόται), the feeders of horses, was the name of the nobility of Chalcis in Euboea, corresponding to the ἱππεῖς in other Greek states. On the conquest of the Chalcidians by the Athenians in B.C. 506, these Hippobotae were deprived of their lands, and 4,000 Athenian cleruchi sent to take possession of them. (Hdt. 5.77, 6.100; Strab. x. p.447; Plut. Per. 23; Aelian, Ael. VH 6.1; Thirlwall, 2.78; Grote, ch. 31, 3.145.) [COLONIA p. 477 a.]
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.