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In partic. Of cavalry, in the phrase, equis virisque (viri = pedites; cf. eques and vir), adverb., with horse and foot, i. e. with might and main, with tooth and nail, Liv. 5, 37; Flor. 2, 7, 8; also: equis, viris, Cic. Phil. 8, 7, 21; id. Fam. 9, 7; cf. Nep. Hamilc. 4; and in the order, viris equisque, Cic. Off. 3, 33.
Transf., of race-horses: ego cursu corrigam tarditatem tum equis, tum vero, quoniam scribis poëma ab eo nostrum probari, quadrigis poeticis, i. e. in prose and poetry, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 15, a (see the passage in connection).
Transf. In plur. (like ἵπποι in Homer), a chariot, Verg. A. 9, 777.
The wind, Cat. 66, 54; Val. Fl. 1, 611.
In mal. part., Hor. S. 2, 7, 50; Petr. 24, 4; App. M. 2, p. 122; Mart. 11, 104, 14.
Prov.: equi donati dentes non inspiciuntur, we don't look a gift horse in the mouth, Hier. Ep. ad Ephes. prooem.
Meton. Equus bipes, a sea-horse, Verg. G. 4, 389; Auct. Pervig. Ven. 10: fluviatilis, a river-horse, hippopotamus, Plin. 8, 21, 30, § 73.
Equus ligneus, like the Homeric ἁλὸς ἵππος, a ship, Plaut. Rud. 1, 5, 10.
The Trojan horse, Verg. A. 2, 112 sq.; Hyg. Fab. 108; Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 12; Prop. 3 (4), 1, 25; Hor. C. 4, 6, 13 al.
* Trop., of a secret conspiracy, Cic. Mur. 37, 78.
A battering-ram, because shaped like a horse; afterwards called aries, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 202.
The constellation Pegasus, Cic. N. D. 2, 43, 111 sq.; Col. 11, 2, 31; Hyg. Astr. 2, 18; 3, 17.
Equus Trojanus, the title of a play of Livius Andronicus, Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2 al.