来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介第6集第6集》

The town, the city, the polis does not provide

城邦无法为所有的战士
the fighters with their defensive armor.

提供战斗所需的防具
They might sometime give them their weapons,

城邦有时会派发武器
but not their defensive armor.

但不是防具
You can't fight as a hoplite, in other words,

换句话说你不能加入步兵方阵
unless you can afford to pay for your equipment

除非你自己能出钱买装备
and that excludes a goodly number of citizens

这样有相当多的公民
who are too poor to fight in the phalanx.

会因为贫穷无法在方阵中战斗
This becomes a very, very large issue

这是一个很大的问题
because the notion that there should be a real connection

因为完全意义上的公民
between citizenship in the full sense

和参与军事行动是相联系的
and military performance is totally a Greek idea--I mean,

这个观念完全是希腊式的我指的是