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cavalrymen, horsemen, knights
The Athenian demos was divided into four parts: into Pentakosiomedimnoi, into Hippeis, into Zeugitai, into Thetes. The Pentakosiomedimnoi they named because their farming produced that many measures; and these men were…
Ἱππεῖς· εἰς τέσσαρα μέρη διῄρητο ὁ δῆμος τῶν Ἀθηναίων, εἰς Πεντακοσιομεδίμνους, εἰς Ἱππέας, εἰς Ζευγίτας, εἰς Θῆτας. καὶ τοὺς μὲν Πεντακοσιομεδίμνους διὰ τὸ γεωργεῖν τοσαῦτα μέτρα…