You shall equip the infantry skoutatos, formerly called hoplite, with a sword, a lance, and, when necessary, a shield of the kind called thyreos, large and oblong in shape but altogether completely curved. All the shields in each arithmos or tagma should be of the same color.
Ὁπλίσεις μὲν οὖν τὸν πεζὸν σκουτάτον, τὸν πάλαι καλούμενον ὁπλίτην, ὥστε ἔχειν σπάθην, κοντάριν, σκουτάριν, ὅτε μὲν χρεία καλεῖ, ἐπίμηκες, μέγα, ὃ καλεῖται θυρεός, πάντως δὲ στρογγύλον τέλειον. τὰ δὲ σκουτάρια ὁμόχροα πάντων ἢ κατὰ ἀριθμὸν ἢ κατὰ τάγμα.
Original text (Ancient Greek)