I spent few hours to search the ancient Greek literature for a quote that will connect the term HOPLON with the SHIELD.
I knew that once I present the quotation from the ancient Greek text and the translation in English from the Tufts (USA) university, even a Greek would understand that the shield of the Hoplite is called HOPLON.
Pausanias, Description of Greece, Arkadika
book 8, chapter 47, section 2
[2] anath??mata de en t??i na??i ta axiolog??tata, esti men to derma huos tou Kalud??niou, dies??peto de hupo tou khronou kai es hapan ??n trikh??n ??d?? psilon: eisi de hai pedai kremamenai, pl??n hosas ??phanisen aut??n ios, has ge ekhontes Lakedaimoni??n hoi aikhmal??toi to pedion Tegeatais eskapton: klin?? te hiera t??s Ath??nas kai Aug??s eik??n graph??i memim??men?? Marp??ss??s te epikl??sin Khoiras, gunaikos Tegeatidos, anakeitai to hoplon.
translation:
[2] Of the votive offerings in the temple these are the most notable. There is the hide of the Calydonian boar, rotted by age and by now altogether without bristles. Hanging up are the fetters, except such as have been destroyed by rust, worn by the Lacedaemonian prisoners when they dug the plain of Tegea. There have been dedicated a sacred couch of Athena, a portrait painting of Auge, and the shield of Marpessa, surnamed Choera, a woman of Tegea;
This text is based on the following book(s):
Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
OCLC: 10818363
ISBN: 0674991044, 0674992075, 0674993004, 0674993284
Ok, Gentlemen... I think here ends this issue...
I may have been accused of being arrogant but at least I am not ignorant... and the ancient Greeks called the hoplite shield with the term: HOPLON (according to Pausanias)
Another small detail that needs to be clarified...
Yianitsaros is the Greek term for Yanissaries
Definition of Yanissaries:
Janissaries (jăn'ĭs??r'ēz) [Turk.,=recruits], elite corps in the service of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). It was composed of war captives and Christian youths pressed into service; all the recruits were converted to Islam and trained under the strictest discipline. It was originally organized by Sultan Murad I. The Janissaries gained great power in the Ottoman Empire and made and unmade sultans. By 1600, Muslims had begun to enter the corps, largely through bribery, and in the 17th cent. membership in the corps became largely hereditary, while the drafting of Christians gradually ceased. In 1826, Sultan Mahmud II rid himself of the unruly (and by now inefficient) Janissaries by having them massacred in their barracks by his loyal Spahis.
best,
Pyros
p.s Efthimie I think it was obvious that I was joking when I asked you if you were a Yanissaries...LOL
p.s He..he..
What I did in this post is the first scientifically based proof that Hoplon is a shield according to the original text...Glory to Slitherine Forums. 
