📚 noun • entry_id 14471
hoplite
/ˈhɒplaɪt/
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hoplita
A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece, wielding a one-handed spear and an aspis.
However important the use of hoplites against, or in support of, troops of other arms had become, their chief function was still to fight other hoplites, though the battles of the…
[…] it was in the line of "hoplites" that the mass of citizen-soldiers were to be found.
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