HIPPOPEDES, or Hippopodie, composed of ἵππος horse, and πόδι foot, in the ancient geography, an appellation given to a certain people situated on the banks of the Scythian sea, as being supposed to have had horse's feet. The hippocopes are mentioned by Dionysius, Geogr. v. 310. Mela, lib. iii. cap. 6. Pliny, lib. iv. cap. 13. and St Augustine, De Civit. lib. xvi. cap. 8. But it is conjectured, that they had this appellation given them on account of their swiftness or lightness of foot. Mr Pennant supposes them to have been the inhabitants of the Bothnian Gulf, and that they were the same sort of people as the Finni Lignipes of Olaus. They wore snow-shoes; which he thinks might fairly give the idea of their being, like horses, hoofed and shod.