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hoplite (plural hoplites) A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece, wielding a one-handed spear and an aspis. 1970, John Kinloch Anderson, Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon, page 141,
This book by Matthew, who recently completed his doctoral thesis on which the book is based, offers a detailed account of the hoplites (spearmen) who fought in the classical Greek armies. A storm of spears; understanding the Greek Hoplite at war