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ὁπλι_τ-ικός , ή, όν,
A.of or for a man-at-arms, “μάχη” Pl.R.374d ; “αἱ ὁ. τάξεις” X.HG3.4.16 ; ὅπλα ib.4.2.7.
2. ἡ -κή (sc. τέχνη) the art of using heavy arms, the soldier' s art, Pl.R.333d ; so “τὸ -κόν” Id.La.182d ; also τὰ -κὰ ἐπιτηδεύειν profess the art of arms, ib.183c.
II. of persons, heavy-armed, τὸ -κόν the soldiery, = οἱ ὁπλῖται, opp. τὸ ἄνοπλον, Arist.Pol.1289b32, cf. Th.5.6, X.An.7.6.26 ; “ἡ ὁ. δύναμις” Arist.Pol.1321a18.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Plato, Republic, 333d
    • Plato, Republic, 374d
    • Plato, Laches, 182d
    • Plato, Laches, 183c
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.6
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 7.6.26
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 3.4.16
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.2.7
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