youngest, Hom., Hes.—The orig. sense was perhaps (from ὅπλον), those capable of bearing arms, opp. to the old men and children, Il.:— but it soon came to mean simply younger or youngest; then, as the youngest are the last born, ἄνδρες ὁπλότεροι also means the latter generations, men of later days, Theocr.
Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.
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