ὁπλῑ́της
First declension Noun; Masculine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ὁπλῑ́της
ὁπλῑ́του
Structure:
ὁπλῑτ
(Stem)
+
ης
(Ending)
Sense
- one who is armed, heavily armored
- a heavily armored foot soldier, man-at-arms, who carried a pike (δόρυ (dóru)) and a large shield (ὅπλον (hóplon))
Declension
First declension
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- ὡσ τοῖσ μὲν τὴν σκέπην ἐκ τῶν ὅπλων εἶναι, τοῖσ δὲ ὁπλίταισ αὖ τὴν ὠφέλειαν ἐκ τῶν κατόπιν ἀκοντισμάτων. (Arrian, chapter 9 1:1)
- οἱ δὲ τὴν ὀργὴν οὐκέτι κατασχόντεσ κελεύουσιν τοῖσ μετ’ αὐτῶν ὁπλίταισ τύπτειν ξύλοισ τοὺσ καταβοῶντασ. (Flavius Josephus, 278:2)
- καὶ δὴ διδόασιν ἐντολὰσ τοῖσ ὁπλίταισ, ἐπειδὰν παραγένωμαι, μόνον εἰσελθεῖν ἐᾶσαι τοὺσ ἄλλουσ ἀπείρξαντασ· (Flavius Josephus, 295:1)
- μάχεσθαι τοὺσ Λακεδαιμονίουσ, ἀλλὰ τῆσ πόλεωσ τὰ μέσα καὶ κυριώτατα τοῖσ ὁπλίταισ περιεσπειραμένοσ ἐκαρτέρει τὰσ ἀπειλὰσ καὶ τὰσ μεγαλαυχίασ τῶν Θηβαίων, προκαλουμένων ἐκεῖνον ὀνομαστὶ καὶ διαμάχεσθαι περὶ τῆσ χώρασ κελευόντων, ὃσ τῶν κακῶν αἴτιόσ ἐστιν ἐκκαύσασ τὸν πόλεμον. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 31 3:1)
- "ἀλλὰ νῦν πλατεῖα μὲν ἡ Θετταλῶν γῆ, καλὸν δὲ τὸ Βοιώτιον πεδίον ἀγαθοῖσ ἱππεῦσι καὶ ὁπλίταισ ἐναγωνίσασθαι. (Plutarch, , chapter 10 2:2)
