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的形象用作力量、坚韧和人类身体卓越的象征。

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 世纪末的扩张战争期间是一个特别大的客户，并常以新的银币作为支付重装步兵新兵的报。

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的全副武装的步兵，作为发财的士兵很受欢迎，许多人在非希腊军队中找到了工作——常与他们的希腊同胞作战。