[…] it was in the line of "hoplites" that the mass of citizen-soldiers were to be found.
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Hoplite
//ˈhɒplaɪt//
Synonyms for "hoplite" (9 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Strong matches (3)
Related words (4)
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Translations
20 translations across 19 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὁπλίτης noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
Bulgarian
1 entries- хопли́т noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
Catalan
1 entries- hoplita noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
Dutch
1 entries- hopliet noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
Finnish
1 entries- hopliitti noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
French
1 entries- hoplite noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
Greek
1 entries- οπλίτης noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
Hebrew
1 entries- הוֹפְּלִיט noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
Hungarian
1 entries- hoplita noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
Ido
1 entries- hoplito noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
Latin
2 entries- hoplita noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
- hoplitēs noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
Macedonian
1 entries- хоплит noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- hoplît noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
Polish
1 entries- hoplita noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
Portuguese
1 entries- hoplita noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
Russian
1 entries- гопли́т noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
Spanish
1 entries- hoplita noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
Swedish
1 entries- hoplit noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
Ukrainian
1 entries- гоплі́т noun (A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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 early fourth century were very different from the ponderous confrontations that had filled King Xerxes and his courtiers with contempt.
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The Athenian hoplites who routed the Persian invaders on the field of Marathon in 490 created one of the great 'myths' of Athens.
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Yet this war of ideals was also a war of many truces, for there were many grounds for accommodation between generals and hoplites. Generals were drawn from the ranks of the hoplites, as hoplites they fought; when they ceased to be generals, it was to the hoplite ranks that they returned. Such was the power of hoplite ideals that many commanders were delighted to compete as hoplites rather than as tacticians, as their frequent deaths in the line signify.
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