HIPPOPEDES, or Hippopodice, composed of ἵππος, horse, and πόδις, 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 horses feet. The hippopodes 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 Bothian gulf, and that they were the same sort of people as the Finni Lignipedes of Olaus. They wore snow-shoes; which he thinks might fairly give the idea of their being, like horses, hoofed and shod.