1) Weapon 
weapon, both offensive and defensive; note this word is often used in modern literature as a technical term for the hoplite shield when in fact this was by no means the case in Antiquity.
(from the article `military technology`) ...shield; similarly, the longer the reach of the soldier`s weapon, the smaller his shield. The Greek hoplite, a heavy infantryman who fought in ...
Weapon.
A hoplon was a Greek shield made of wood and bronze, about one metre in diameter, carried by infantry soldiers of the phalanx (hoplites).