Hoplite Panoply

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The "archaic ideal" wanted the hoplite as best armored as possible 750B.C. to 600 B.C. Hoplites were at least minor nobility and came in small numbers.
King Pheidon of Argos (considered the founder of the hoplite phalanx) is reputed to have 5000 logadae-elite hoplites armed to the teeth. The other Argives had shield-helmet-spear minimum.
The Spartans by forcing the Messenians to work for them raised at least 6000 fully equiped and trained men. They also forced a high standard of equipment on the Perioikoi.
Every city state was making an effort to have 300 to 800 well equiped men.
The devastation of the Peloponessian war lowered the standards to Ekdromos even peltast for many. The "pass muster" rules that Paul mentioned were lowered too.
Xenophon metions "putting the better armed forward". That means that the lesser equiped would be rear rankers. The othismos needs the hoplon to be performed not the armor as Matt pointed out.
PANOPLOS is better translated to English as fully equiped man.
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