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ει132Εἵλωςhelot… 134, epsiloniota 135. [1] This is probably incorrect. Another lexicographer, Pollux, famously defines the helots as ‘between free and slave’, and it is generally agreed nowadays that they were not chattel slaves (to be …Matched in noteshighshort

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Εἵλως

helot

[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…

Εἵλως, εἵλωτος· ὁ δοῦλος. καὶ τὸ ἐθνικὸν Εἵλωτες παρὰ Λακεδαιμονίοις οἱ νόθοι καὶ οἱ ἐξ αἰχμαλώτων δοῦλοι γενόμενοι· ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἕλους· Ἕλος δὲ πόλις ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ. οἱ οὖν…