Sentence example with the word 'hoplites'

hoplites

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Cyrus had 10,400 Greek hoplites and 2500 peltasts, and besides an Asiatic army under the command of Ariaeus, for which Xenophon gives the absurd number of ioo,000 men; the army of Artaxerxes he puts down at 900,000.   [Please select]

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This, however, did not yield ingloriously; and, though abandoned by their king, who fled, the Macedonian hoplites died at their post.   [Please select]

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It is ten days since we left Cosenza, we have made but some ten miles advance among the hills, and we have lost already eight hundred hoplites, and I know not how many light armed troops.   [Please select]

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