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Hippasus

Ἵππασος

(Ἵππασος), a Lacedaemonian who is mentioned by Diogenes Laertius (8.84) as the author of a work on the Lacedaemonian republic in five books, from which a statement is quoted by Athenaeus (i. p. 14). The time at which he lived is unknown.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 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.