See SICILY: B. C. 409-405. ----------HIMERA: End-------- HIMYARITES, The. See ARABIA. HIN, The. See EPHAH. HINDMAN, Fort, Capture of. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1863 (JANUARY: ARKANSAS). {1647} HINDOO KOOSH, The Name of the. See CAUCASUS, THE INDIAN. HINDUISM. See INDIA: THE IMMIGRATION AND CONQUESTS OF THE ARYAS. HINDUSTAN. See INDIA: THE NAME. HINKSTON'S FORK, Battle of (1782). See KENTUCKY: A. D. 1775-1784. HIONG-NU, The. See TURKS: 6TH CENTURY. HIPPARCH. A commander of cavalry in the military organization of the ancient Athenians. _G. F. Schömann, Antiquity of Greece: The State, part 3, chapter 3._ HIPPEIS. Among the Spartans, the honorary title of Hippeis, or Knights, was given to the members of a chosen body of three hundred young men, the flower of the Spartan youth, who had not reached thirty years of age. "Their three leaders were called Hippagretæ, although in war they served not as cavalry but as hoplites. The name may possibly have survived from times in which they actually served on horseback." At Athens the term Hippeis was applied to the second of the four property classes into which Solon divided the population,—their property obliging them to serve as cavalry. _G. Schömann, Antiquity of Greece, The State, part 3, chapters 1 and 3._ See, also, ATHENS: B. C. 594. HIPPIS, Battle of the, Fought, A. D. 550, in what was known as the Lazic War, between the Persians on one side and the Romans and the Lazi on the other. The latter were the victors. _G. Rawlinson, Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy, chapter 20._ ----------HIPPO: Start-------- HIPPO, OR HIPPO REGIUS. An ancient city of north Africa, on the Numidian coast. See NUMIDIANS; and CARTHAGE: DOMINION OF. HIPPO: A. D. 430-431. Siege by the Vandals. See VANDALS: A. D. 429-439. ----------HIPPO: End-------- HIPPOBOTÆ, The. See EUBŒA. HIPPODROME. STADION. THEATER. "The arts practised in the gymnasia were publicly displayed at the festivals. The buildings in which these displays took place were modified according to their varieties. The races both on horseback and in chariots took place in the hippodrome; for the gymnastic games of the pentathlon served the stadion; while for the acme of the festivals, the musical and dramatic performances, theatres were erected." _E. Guhl and W. Koner, Life of the Greeks and Romans (translated by Hueffer), sections 28-30._ HIPPOTOXOTÆ, The. See SCYTHIANS, OR SCYTHÆ, OF ATHENS. HIRA.