Today, the image of a Spartan hoplite helmet is used as a symbol of strength, fortitude, and human physical excellence.

今天，斯巴达重装步兵头盔形象用作力量、人类身体卓越象征。

With the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War in 431 B.C.E., Socrates was recruited as a hoplite, the equivalent of a private, third class.

公元前 431 年伯罗奔尼撒战争爆发后，苏格拉底征召为霍普莱特兵，相当于三等兵。

Persia was a particularly large customer during its wars of expansion around the end of the sixth century, and frequently paid its hoplite recruits in the newfangled medium of silver coins.

波斯在 6 世纪末扩张战争期间是一个特别户，并经常以新奇银币作为支付重装步兵新兵报酬。

Hoplites, the heavily armed infantrymen who formed the core of Greek armies of this period, were much in demand as soldiers of fortune, and many found employment in non-Greek armies—not infrequently fighting their fellow Greeks.

重装步兵是这一时期希腊军队核心全副武装步兵，作为发财士兵很受欢迎，许多人在非希腊军队中找到了工作——经常与他们希腊同胞作战。