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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,
Beginning in about the seventh century BC, the most common form of Greek shield was a large, deeply concave, circular shield made of wood and bronze. This was called a hoplon, and it gave its name to the Greek soldier, the hoplite.