ει133Εἱλωτεύειν
to 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.
Εἱλωτεύειν· δουλεύειν. εἵλωτες γὰρ οἱ μὴ γόνῳ δοῦλοι Λακεδαιμονίων, ἀλλ' οἱ πρῶτοι χειρωθέντες τῶν Ἕλος τὴν πόλιν οἰκούντων.