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ὅπλων (hoplon)

ὅπλων is an Ancient Greek form of ὅπλον, meaning “tool; (pl.) arms, weapons”. It is the genitive plural neuter noun.

Found 797 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.6.1: πᾶσα γὰρ ἡ Ἑλλὰς ἐσιδηροφόρει διὰ τὰς ἀφάρκτους τε οἰκήσεις καὶ οὐκ ἀσφαλεῖς παρ᾽ ἀλλήλους ἐφόδους, καὶ ξυνήθη τὴν δίαιταν μεθ’ ὅπλων ἐποιήσαντο ὥσπερ οἱ βάρβαροι.

Plutarch, Sertorius 17.7: ὅθεν ἡμέρας δύο μόλις ἀνασχόμενοι τῇ τρίτῃ παρέδωκαν ἑαυτούς, οὐ τοσοῦτον Σερτωρίῳ δυνάμεως ὅσον δόξης προσθέντες, ὡς τὰ διʼ ὃπλων ἀνάλωτα σοφίᾳ κατεργασαμένῳ.

Sophocles, Ichneutae 108: καὶ τοὐπίσημον αὐτὸ τῶν ὁπλῶν πάλι[ν.

All forms of ὅπλον (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.