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Εἵλως

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Εἵλως Εἵλωτος

Structure: Εἱλωτ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a Helot

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • διδάσκει δέ, ὡσ οὐ Μεσσηνίοισ τοῖσ οὐκέτ’ οὖσιν ἀλλὰ δούλοισ καὶ εἵλωσιν ὁρμητήριον καὶ καταφυγὴν παρέξουσι τὴν πόλιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 9 1:1)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ χρηματίζεσθαι τοῖσ ἐλευθέροισ ἐξῆν, ἵνα ἐλεύθεροι παντελῶσ καὶ καθάπαξ ὦσιν, ἀλλ’ ἦν ἡ περὶ τὰ χρήματα κατασκευὴ δεδομένη δούλοισ καὶ Εἵλωσιν, ὥσπερ ἡ περὶ τὸ δεῖπνον καὶ ὄψον διακονία. (Plutarch, Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa, chapter 2 4:1)
  • ὅτι δὲ τοῖσ εἵλωσιν ὑβριστικῶσ πάνυ ἐχρῶντο Λακεδαιμόνιοι καὶ Μύρων ὁ Πριηνεὺσ ἱστορεῖ ἐν δευτέρῳ Μεσσηνιακῶν γράφων οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 74 4:1)
  • ἔδοξε δὲ τοῖσ τέλεσι καὶ προειπεῖν τοῖσ Εἵλωσιν, εἴ τισ βούλοιτο ὅπλα λαμβάνειν καὶ εἰσ τάξιν τίθεσθαι, τὰ πιστὰ λαμβάνειν ὡσ ἐλευθέρουσ ἐσομένουσ ὅσοι συμπολεμήσαιεν. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 5 36:3)
  • ἀνέστησαν δὲ καὶ Ἕλοσ ἐπὶ θαλάσσῃ πόλισμα Ἀχαιῶν ἐχόντων καὶ Ἀργείουσ τοῖσ εἵλωσιν ἀμύναντασ μάχῃ νικῶσιν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 2 12:3)

Synonyms

  1. a Helot

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