Εἱλωτεία
helotage, helot-status
Translated by D. Graham J. Shipley7 Feb 2005Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] slavery.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Εἱλωτεία· ἡ δουλεία.
Betacode
*ei(lwtei/a: h( doulei/a.
Notes
- The gloss -- also in other lexica, and in the scholia to Plato, Alcibiades I 122D -- embodies the same misconception as epsiloniota 132, q.v. (Likewise epsiloniota 135.)
Linked from4 entries
- ει132Εἵλωςhelot[genitive] ei(/lwtos: the slave. And the ethnic Heilotes [is used] among Lakedaimonians [for] illegitimate men and those slaves born from captives; from the [word] Helos. Helos [is] a polis in the Peloponnese. So the…
- ει133Εἱλωτεύεινto be a helot[Meaning] to be a slave. For helots were the slaves of Lakedaimonians, not [so] by birth, but [by virtue of being] the first-defeated of the inhabitants of the city Helos.
- ει135Εἱλωτίςhelot-woman, female helot[Meaning] the female slave.
- κ1703Κλαρόταιserfs[Meaning] immigrants; like [the] Mariandynoi in [sc. Pontic] Herakleia and [the] Helots in Sparta and [the] Penestai in Thessaly and [the] Kallikyrioi in Syracuse.
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Revision history2 revisions · last 25 Nov 2012
- expanded note; more keywords — David Whitehead
- augmented headword and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — D. Graham J. Shipley