{{Short description|Treatise by Xenophon}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Use list-defined references|date=March 2016}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox book | italic title = | name = Hipparchicus | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | author = [[Xenophon]] | audio_read_by = | title_orig = Ἱππαρχικός | orig_lang_code = el | title_working = | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = [[Ancient Athenian Empire|Athens]] | language = [[Ancient Greek]] | series = | release_number = | subject = | genre = | set_in = | published = | publisher = | publisher2 = | english_pub_date = | media_type = | pages = | awards = | isbn = | isbn_note = | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = | external_url = https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0210:text=Cav. | external_host = [[Perseus Project|Perseus]] | native_wikisource = Ιππαρχικός | wikisource = | notes = {{ubl|written: circa 350 BC|first printed edition: [[Filippo Giunti]], 1516|first printing in England: Clarendon Press, 1693}} | exclude_cover = | website = }}
'''''Hipparchicus''''' (''{{lang|grc|Ἱππαρχικός}}'', ''Hipparchikós'') is one of the two treatises on [[horsemanship]] by the Athenian historian and soldier [[Xenophon]] {{nowrap|(circa 430 – 354 BC).}} Other common titles for this work include ''The cavalry commander'' and ''The cavalry general''. The other work by Xenophon on horsemanship is ''{{lang|grc|Περὶ ἱππικῆς}}'', ''Perì hippikēs'', usually translated as ''[[On horsemanship]]'', ''De equis alendis'' or ''The Art of Horsemanship''. The title ''De re equestri'' may refer to either one of the two works. ''Hipparchicus'' deals mainly with the duties of the [[cavalry]] commander (''[[hipparchus (cavalry officer)|hipparchus]]''), while ''On horsemanship'' deals with the selection, care and training of [[horse]]s in general.
== History ==
The treatises of Xenophon were written in about 350 BC, and were considered the earliest extant works on [[horsemanship]] in any literature until the publication by [[Bedřich Hrozný]] in 1931 of a [[Hittites|Hittite]] text, that by [[Kikkuli]] of the [[Mitanni]] Kingdom,{{r|sarton|page=457}} which dates from about 1360 BC. A treatise on horsemanship by [[Pliny the Elder]] is believed lost, as was that by [[Simon of Athens]], which is twice mentioned by Xenophon in ''On horsemanship''.{{r|berenger|page=2}} Some fragments of Simon's treatise survive, however;{{r|sestili}} they were published by [[Franz Rühl]] in 1912.{{r|ruehl|mccabe|page2=4}}
== Early editions ==
The first printed edition of ''Hipparchicus'' is that in the complete edition of Xenophon of 1516 from the [[Filippo Giunti|Giunti]] press:{{r|bandini}} * ''Begin. Ταδε ̓ενεστιν ̓εν τͅηδε τͅη βιβλͅω· Ξενοφωντος Κυρου Παιδειας βιβλια ηʹ ... Hæc in hoc libro continentur. X. Cyri pedias libri VIII. Anabaseos libri VII.; ... apomnemoneumaton; ... venatoria; ... de re equestri; ... de equis alendis; lacedæmonum resp.; ... atheniensium resp.; ... œconomica; ... hieron.; ... symposium; ... de græcorum gestis libri VII.'' [With dedication by E. Boninus] ([[editio princeps]]). Florentiæ: In ædibus P. Juntæ, 1516
The earliest printing in Greek in England may be:{{r|brunet1820|page=607}} * ''Ξ. Λογος περι Ἱππικης. Ἱππαρχικος. Κυνηγετικος. Accessere veterum testimonia de X.'' (Edited by H. Aldrich.)''Ἐκ Θεατρου ἐν Ὀξονιᾳ, ᾳχζγ'' [Oxford: Clarendon Press 1693].
== References == <references>
<ref name=bandini>Angelo Maria Bandini (1791). [https://books.google.com/books?id=M-8UAAAAQAAJ ''De Florentina luntarum typographia eiusque censoribus ex qua Graeci, Latini, Tusci scriptores ope codicum manuscriptorum a viris clarissimis pristinae integritati restituti in lucem prodierunt; Accedunt excerpta uberrima praefationum libris singulis praemissarum''] (in Latin). Lucae: Franciscus Bonsignorus.</ref>
<ref name=berenger>Richard Berenger (1771). [https://books.google.com/books?id=54MPAAAAIAAJ ''The History and Art of Horsemanship'']. London: T. Davies and T. Cadell.</ref>
<ref name=brunet1820>Jacques-Charles Brunet (1820). [https://books.google.com/books?id=oE_Go36V51oC ''Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres''] (in French). Paris: L'Auteur.</ref>
<ref name=mccabe>Anne Elena McCabe (2007). [https://books.google.com/books?id=lrqpFCBfmbgC ''A Byzantine encyclopaedia of horse medicine: the sources, compilation, and transmission of the Hippiatrica'']. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|9780199277551}}.</ref>
<ref name=ruehl>Franz Ruehl (1910, 1912). ''Xenophontis Scripta Minora. Fasciculus prior, Oeconomicum, Convivium, Hieronem, Agesilaum, Apologiam Socratis continens. Post Ludovicum Dindorf edidit Th. Thalheim; Fasciculus posterior opuscula politica, equestria, venatica continens ... Edidit F. Ruehl. Accedunt Simonis De re equestri quae supersunt'' (2 volumes, in Latin and Ancient Greek). Leipzig: Teubner.</ref>
<ref name=sarton>George Sarton (1993). [https://books.google.com/books?id=VcoGIKlHuZcC ''Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece''] (facsimile of 1952 edition). Courier Dover Publications.</ref>
<ref name=sestili>Antonio Sestili (2006). ''L'equitazione nella Grecia antica: i trattati equestri di Senofonte e i frammenti di Simone'' (in Italian). Scandicci (Firenze): Firenze Atheneum. {{ISBN|9788872552933}}.</ref>
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== Translations == Translations include:
* (various translators) ''The whole works of Xenophon'' London: Jones & Co. 1832, pp. 717–728 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=XfIERBH4_Z4C full text])
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