Helot
Origin of Helot
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- hel·ot·age, noun
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How to use Helot in a sentence
His cheeks bright red, his chin wet with spittle, the Helot would weave and stagger and totter until he passed out in the dirt.
Little by little, he had become to his wife so indulgent and so affectionate, that the poor Helot felt her heart touched.
Other People's Money | Emile GaboriauIt may actually have been the unfortunate fall to which the Helot owed his death.
Atlantis | Gerhart HauptmannIt would be, I expected, such a sight as that which the drunken Helot once presented to the virtuous Spartan youth.
The Chaplain of the Fleet | Walter Besant and James RiceIn the boat were Thorkeld, a Helot of Iona, and two dark wild-eyed men of the north.
The Divine Adventure etc. (Works vol. 4) | Fiona Macleod
Thus sacrificing one class to the other, both were injured,—the imperious Spartan and the abased Helot.
Charles Sumner; His Complete Works, Volume III (of 20) | Charles Sumner
British Dictionary definitions for Helot
/ (ˈhɛlət, ˈhiː-) /
(in ancient Greece, esp Sparta) a member of the class of unfree men above slaves owned by the state
(usually not capital) a serf or slave
Origin of Helot
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