Ὁπλιστής
warrior, hoplite, warrior's
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Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὁπλιστής· ὁ ἐκ τῶν ὅπλων. πάντα τὸν ὁπλιστὰν κόσμον ὀλωλεκότα.
Betacode
*(oplisth/s: o( e)k tw=n o(/plwn. pa/nta to\n o(plista\n ko/smon o)lwleko/ta.
Notes (2)
- The headword is rare, but can be either a noun or (as in the quotation given) an adjective; see generally LSJ s.v.
After the epigram quoted here, the next attestation of the word is in Vettius Valens, astrologer of the second century CE; then in the Christian writers Hippolytus and Gregory of Nyssa. - 1cf. omicron 466, omicron 467, omicron 468. ↩
- 2Erycius (C1 BCE), Greek Anthology 7.230.2 (with Doric accusative singular): a Spartan mother punishes her son for returning weaponless (cf. tau 926). A similar phrase
o(pli/thn ko/smon occurs in Euripides, Heracleidae 699. ↩
Linked from3 entries
- ο466Ὁπλῖταιhoplites[Hoplites,] peltasts, light-armed: these are constituents of the infantry fighting-force, but they present differences. "Hoplites" is the term for those who use heavy equipment in the Macedonian manner, with round…
- ο468Ὁπλίτηςhoplite, soldierIn Thucydides [this word] is used for someone not rowing; but nau/ths ["sailor"] [is used] as a participant in the rowing.
- ο469Ὁπλότεροςyounger, rather youngIt is applied to both in Homer, [i.e.] both as comparative and as absolute. [Homer writes] "of the younger Graces," since Homer assumes two generations of Graces, an elder and a younger. For this reason he says…
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