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hoplite
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hoplite \Hop"lite\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? tool, weapon: cf. F.
hoplite.] (Gr. Antiq.)
A heavy-armed infantry soldier.
--Milford.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"heavy-armed foot soldier of ancient Greece," 1727, from Greek hoplites "heavily armed soldier," literally "heavy armed," from hopla "arms, armor," plural of hoplon "tool, weapon, implement."
Wiktionary
n. (context historical English) A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece.
Wikipedia
Hoplites were citizen-soldiers of Ancient Greek city-states who were primarily armed with spears and shields. Their main tactic was the phalanx formation. The hoplites were primarily free citizens—propertied farmers and artisans—who were able to afford the bronze armor suit and weapons (estimated at a third to a half of its able-bodied adult male population). Hoplites generally received basic military training.
In the 8th or 7th century BC Greek armies adopted a military innovation known as the phalanx formation. This tactic proved successful in defeating the Persians when employed by the Athenians at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC during the First Greco-Persian War. The Persian archers and light troops who fought in the Battle of Marathon failed, in part, because their bows were too weak for their arrows to penetrate the Greek shields and armor, and their own armor and shields could not stand up to the longer spears and swords of the Greeks. The phalanx was also successfully employed by the Greeks at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC and at the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC during the Second Greco-Persian War.
The word hoplite ( Greek: hoplitēs; pl. hoplitai) derives from hoplon (, plural hopla ), the name for the type of shield used by the soldiers. However, the shield was more commonly known as an aspis, so the word hopla may refer to the soldiers' weapons or even their full armament. In the modern Hellenic Army, the word hoplite ( Greek: ) is used to refer to an infantryman.
Hoplite is an iOS and Android video game developed by Douglas Cowley and released on December 20, 2013. Its artwork includes old school pixel art done by Shroomarts that blends well to stay true to the games simple / retro style
Usage examples of "hoplite".
Constable was sitting in the middle of his bamboo grove, enveloped in a suit of hoplite armor, similarly filthy and scarred, that was twice as big as he was, and that made his bare head look absurdly small.
The robe was loose at the neck and had short sleeves so that Hackworth could see the inner garment of a hoplite suit underneath.
A spin-off from the military armor used by American and Russian heavy infantry units, the Hoplite suit weighed a half-ton and resembled an egg which had sprouted semirobotic arms and legs.
Adapted for Mars environmentthe Bushies were modified the same waybut the suit looks like a variation on the Hoplite I armor which the First Space used during the Descartes Station raid a few years back.
We managed to get some modified Hoplite armor shipped to us, like the ones used by U.
Wearing Hoplite II recon armor, he was lowered by cable into the tunnel, with the intention of making his way back toward the City and, hopefully, locating the catacombs.
It was a huge marble cube, topped with a statue of a Spartan hoplite, the base engraved with the story of the mighty battle at Plataea, where the invading Persian army had been crushed by the power of the Spartan phalanx.
Once I desired only to be a Spartan hoplite, bearing shield, sword and spear.
There was the odd hoplite or cowboy in the throng, but most were dressed in the right period.
Lleland had directed that the paper flow be routed through his hoplite Phetlock.
Basic chassis used for standard Hoplite personnel carrier, recovery vehicles.
The Greek hoplite had been the most terrible of foes, on the ancient battlefield.
Rufrius was right, they were very pretty in their Greek hoplite armor of linen corselets oversewn with silver metal scales, gaudy purple tunics, high brown boots, silver nose-pieced helmets bearing purple horsehair plumes.
She was conveyed from Ostia in a curtained litter, an enormous procession of attendants before her and behind her, including a detachment of the Royal Guard in their quaint hoplite gear, but mounted on snow-white horses with purple tack.
He was buying up the rights to all his Roman Empire movies, that series he made, Hoplite Cassius.