What is "hoplites"

Usage examples of "hoplites".

He took with him two legions each of 6,000 hoplites, light infantry, axemen and archers.

A detachment of 150 hoplites with spears and shields, attendant epsilons, a malfunctioning portable communicator, and supplies for two days were dispatched up the valley.

My Hoplites break her cavalry in two and march up the board, followed by my Siege Tower.

He skimmed low over the heads of the Palanaquii hoplites and then pulled up and climbed again.

General Zeurn and a squad of his hoplites chose that moment to come marching down the pier.

At no time did the hoplites attempt to throw their spears: That would have been a breach of discipline.

The hoplites with him appeared to be armed only with spears, but it was hardly the moment to take chances.

It is only their light armed soldiers we have to fear, but even these must move at the same rate as the hoplites, for if they ventured far away from the protection of the spearmen we should make short work of them.

It is ten days since we left Cosenza, we have made but some ten miles advance among the hills, and we have lost already eight hundred hoplites, and I know not how many light armed troops.