About the battle of Corinth (146 BC)

[QuintusCaedicius]

Thank you, kdrakak. It's good to see this thread has attracted interest of the forum members. To be honest, I would have loved to join the community when the first EB was being developed, but I was damn busy in that period.

As for the future discussion, I have many ideas in my mind, but I prefer not to flood the forum with many different threads. An instance would be the Spartan and Illyrian presence in Italy. Like I said before, I like to discuss about events and facts that are not so well known by the general public. So stay tuned!

BTW, as for "hoplon"

This is an example of a word that, like many others in greek and latin (I've studied both, but i'm a bit rusty), has two different meanings, depending on grammatical number. Another example would be the latin "copia" (abundance, singular) and "copiae" (troops, plural).

I don't know if the word "hopla" can actually be used as the plural form of "hoplon", depending on context. IIRC this wasn't the case in latin. But it is also true that greek is a much more flexible language. A linguist/archaeologist/historian could help us in clearing up this doubt.