Hoplon

Word HOPLON
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In addition, each man carried a razor-sharp iron sword and heavy shield hoplon almost three feet wide on the left arm. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

An enormous and heavy shield—the aspis or hoplon—some three feet in diameter covered half the body and completed the panoply. ❋ Robert B. Strassler (2003)

Hoplites were citizen soldiers who provided their own equipment: a round bronze shield (hoplon), a bronze helmet with cheek and nose guards, and a nine-foot spear. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Once spears were used and lost they were using their swords, as well as their shields (or the hoplon -- from which they received their name = hoplites). ❋ Unknown (2000)

Hoplophobe: from the Greek hoplon, or weapon, is defined as the "fear of firearms" or alternatively, an irrational fear of weapons in general, and describes a specific phobia. ❋ Mhbretz (2010)

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