Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Hippocampus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

HIPPOCAMP'US (ἱπποκάμπος). A fabulous animal, having the fore quarters and body of a horse, but ending in the tail of a fish, like the annexed example (Hippocampus/1.1), from a Pompeian painting, which the poets and artists of antiquity commonly attach to the marine car of Neptune and the Tritons. Naev. and Lucil. ap. Non. s. v. p. 120.

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  Hippocampus/1.1