What does hippodame mean?
Hippodame means (obsolete, rare, mythology) A sea horse or hippocampus..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete, rare, mythology) A sea horse or hippocampus..
on every syde / They trembling stood, and made a long broad dyke, / That his swift charet might have passage wyde / Which foure great Hippodames did draw in temewise tyde.
Nor did less tumult swell the late defeat Of monstrous Dagon, from whom, worse deformed With hippodame and kraken, self -assumed, So spirits can, turned infantry and steed, Nor chose the ambush of his doubtful shape.
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Hippodame means (obsolete, rare, mythology) A sea horse or hippocampus..
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on every syde / They trembling stood, and made a long broad dyke, / That his swift charet might have passage wyde / Which foure great Hippodames did draw in temewise tyde.
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