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Interpretation, to be sure, is likelier than the abstract one, `while Meaning is evidently `under the(ir) shields'. It? For the LS-J classification and those who follow it, the presumed TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] is correct, what did Thucydides mean by With (e.g.) Poppo/Stahl and Classen/Steup.
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Meaning `in addition to their arms', is attractive and found favour Thought that calls for anĮmendation, producing the The tradition of manuscript B (Vaticanus 126) be preferred, some have
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That was enough to persuade Hude (Teubner) and Forster Smith (Loeb),Īmongst others, to banish the phrase from their texts. The (in this context) vital words ĭo not occur in one of the best manuscripts, C (Laurentianus 69.2) and Passage raises far more questions than it solves. Held, the only `shield' passage in Attic prose.(7) But in truth the The texts at issue, special attention has been drawn to this as, it is 7.75.5 (the Athenian retreat from Syracuse, 413): [GREEK Most of them provide for such a meaning, in any period. Close scrutiny, however, casts doubt on the support that Referred to eight passages, five in literary texts and three in Under the LS-J definition of hoplon as `shield' one is Three hundred since the necessity for the word had first arisen.ģ. (B.C.) to the fourth, some one hundred years on from the first survivingĮxamples of the word and perhaps Even if it be assumed thatĮphoros was his source, that only takes us back from the first century His date, on the other hand, diminishes his authority here inĪ way less open to differences of opinion. Untrustworthy on this particular matter would incur the charge ofīegging the question at issue so at this stage we shall refrain fromĭoing so. Writer so otherwise untrustworthy and so late. Point is the prudence of relying, for this purported information, on a Their.aspides! But be that (for the moment) as it may, the substantive Were named after their pelte just as hoplitai had once been named after OneĬannot help savouring the illogicality of an assertion that peltastai Military innovations of Iphikrates in fourthcentury Athens, Diodorosġ5.44.3 has this to say. The first and only definitional statement on the subject isĪccordingly a retrospective one. (see 6 below), they do so as a phenomenon needing-reasonably Hoplites first appear in the surviving sources, in the fifth century Scholiasts were interested in defining and by the same token, when Plural) nor hoplites were the sort of terms that lexicographers and Unfortunately for present purposes, neither hoplon (in singular or What is, then, the evidential basis for the orthodox view? Which that evidence should properly give rise.(5)Ģ. Subject are content to repeat one another without reference to ancientĮvidence at all, and (as a result) without awareness of the doubts to Preliminary point is that virtually all modern scholars who utter on the This definition will be examined in 3 below. The literary and epigraphical testimony mustered in support of Soldier, man-at-arms, who carried a pike ([GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE The men-at-arms took their name of (thus s.v. Reassurance from LS-J apparently finds it: `the large shield, from which Monotonous regularity as if stating a simple fact,(4) and anyone seeking Textbooks and reference works on warfare serve it up with Hoplon that generated the word hoplites as a description of itsīearer-is indeed received wisdom on the subject amongst modern Shield-which is to say that there was a specific shield-type called the (1.) The idea that hoplites did derive their name from their Of the word hoplite was nothing more than `(heavily-)armed That all-encompassing sense so that the original and essential meaning Took their name from their arms and armour as a whole, their hopla in `The individual infantryman took his name, hoplites, from the hoplon or `Hoplites are troops who take their name from their shields'.(1) APA style: The myth of the hoplite's 'hoplon.' (shield).The myth of the hoplite's 'hoplon.' (shield)." Retrieved from (shield)-a018492111
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MLA style: "The myth of the hoplite's 'hoplon.' (shield)." The Free Library.