hoplite

• The once buoyant frizz of her platinum hair now straggled in limp ropes against the shiny black leather of her skimpy hoplite-style cuir bodily armor Lan-dree! —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
• It was a huge marble cube, topped with a statue of a Spartan hoplite, the base engraved with the story of the mighty battle at Plataea, where the invading Persian army had been crushed by the power of the Spartan phalanx. —  David Gemmell - (Lion of Macedon 01) Lion Of Macedon v1.0 (1990).htm
• Truly. Once I desired only to be a Spartan hoplite, bearing shield, sword and spear. —  David Gemmell - (Lion of Macedon 01) Lion Of Macedon v1.0 (1990).htm
• The man thus armed was called a hoplite. —  History Of Ancient Civilization
• Thus to do the hoplite, carrying a great weight of arms, at forty-seven, he needed to have some constitution; and indeed he had;--furthermore, he played the part with distinguished bravery--though wont to fall at times into inconvenient fits of abstraction. —  The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19

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