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ὁπλῑ́της

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁπλῑ́της ὁπλῑ́του

Structure: ὁπλῑτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: o(/plon

Sense

  1. one who is armed, heavily armored
  2. 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.

Examples

  • ἵναπερ τὸ δόρυ ἐστὶ τῷ ὁπλίτῃ, ἐπ̓ ἀσπίδα δὲ ἡ ἐπὶ τὰ λαιά, ἵνα φέρει τὴν ἀσπίδα. (Arrian, chapter 21 3:1)
  • ἀνάκειται δὲ καὶ πύκτησ κρατήσασ ἐν παισὶ Βούτασ Πολυνείκουσ Μιλήσιοσ, καὶ Καλλικράτησ ἀπὸ τῆσ ἐπὶ Ληθαίῳ Μαγνησίασ ἐπὶ τῷ ὁπλίτῃ δρόμῳ στεφάνουσ δύο ἀνῃρημένοσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 5:2)

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