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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

  • ὁ δ’ ἰχνεύμων ἀκηκόατε δήπουθεν ὡσ οὐδὲν ἀπολείπει θωρακιζομένου πρὸσ μάχην ὁπλίτου· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 10 6:1)
  • ὃσ ἐπὶ τῆσ ἡλικίασ ἔφη τῆσ ἑαυτοῦ τὸν ὄροφον τοῦ Ἡραίου πεπονηκότα ἐπανορθουμένων Ἠλείων ὁπλίτου νεκρὸν τραύματα ἔχοντα μεταξὺ ἀμφοτέρων εὑρεθῆναι, τῆσ τε ἐσ εὐπρέπειαν στέγησ καὶ τῆσ ἀνεχούσησ τὸν κέραμον· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 20 7:2)
  • Δαμαρέτῳ δὲ Ἡραιεῖ υἱῷ τε τοῦ Δαμαρέτου καὶ υἱωνῷ δύο ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ γεγόνασιν ἑκάστῳ νῖκαι, Δαμαρέτῳ μὲν πέμπτῃ ἐπὶ ταῖσ ἑξήκοντα Ὀλυμπιάδι, ὅτε ἐνομίσθη πρῶτον ὁ τοῦ ὁπλίτου δρόμοσ, καὶ ὡσαύτωσ τῇ ἐφεξῆσ ‐ πεποίηται ὁ ἀνδριὰσ ἀσπίδα τε κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ ἔχων τοῖσ ἐφ’ ἡμῶν καὶ κράνοσ ἐπὶ τῇ κεφαλῇ καὶ κνημῖδασ ἐπὶ τοῖσ ποσί· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 10 7:1)
  • ἀπαντησάντων δὲ τῶν Ἐπειῶν μεθ’ ὅπλων, ἐπειδὴ ἀντίπαλοι ἦσαν αἱ δυνάμεισ, εἰσ μονομαχίαν προελθεῖν κατὰ ἔθοσ τι παλαιὸν τῶν Ἑλλήνων Πυραίχμην Αἰτωλὸν Δέγμενόν τ’ Ἐπειόν, τὸν μὲν Δέγμενον μετὰ τόξου ψιλόν, ὡσ περιεσόμενον ῥᾳδίωσ ὁπλίτου διὰ τῆσ ἑκηβολίασ, τὸν δὲ μετὰ σφενδόνησ καὶ πήρασ λίθων, ἐπειδὴ κατέμαθε τὸν δόλον· (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 3 66:3)

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