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Helot   /hˈɛlət/   Listen
Helot

noun
1.
(Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord.  Synonyms: serf, villein.






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"Helot" Quotes from Famous Books



... for what? From the doing of the grandest duty that ever ennobled man, to the grief of the greatest infamy that ever crushed him down. You would hold him back from prizes before which Olympian laurels fade, for a fate before which a Helot slave might cower. His country in the agony of her death-struggle calls to him for succor. All the blood in all the ages, poured out for liberty, poured out for him, cries unto him from the ground. ...
— Gala-days • Gail Hamilton

... standing close to the wall, pulled the door back upon her for protection, like a helot letting a tiger into the arena, or a servant admitting into the bull-ring some furious native of Gaviria or Colmenar. Juancho, who expected more resistance, entered slowly, as if disconcerted by the absence of obstacles. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various

... man. Thou mayst find thousands in Egypt who will serve thee at any price, and bear thee in any mood. I have but one price. It is well known to thee. I will not be the target for thy black temper. This is not the middle ages; I am an Englishman, not a helot. The bond must be kept; thou shalt not play fast and loose. Money must be found; the expedition must go. But if thy purpose is now Harrik's purpose, then Europe should know, and Egypt also should know. I have been ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... knowledge—Chaldeans, Egyptians, Phenicians, and Arabians—show that slavery has existed the remotest antiquity. Slavery was the common fate of prisoners of war in the time of Homer; Alexander sold the inhabitants of Thebes, and the Spartans reduced the entire population of Helos to servitude, so that Helot came to be synonymous with slave, while one of the laws inscribed on the Twelve Tables of Rome gave a creditor the right to sell an insolvent debtor into slavery to satisfy his claim. Wealthy Romans frequently possessed slaves, over whose lives ...
— Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings • Francis Augustus MacNutt



Words linked to "Helot" :   cotter, villein, Middle Ages, Dark Ages, Europe, cottier, thrall



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