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Εἱλωτεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Εἱλωτεία

Structure: Εἱλωτει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from Ei(/lws

Sense

  1. the condition of a Helot

Declension

First 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

  • σχεδὸν γὰρ πάντων Ἑλλήνων ἡ Λακεδαιμονίων εἱλωτεία πλείστην ἀπορίαν παράσχοιτ’ ἂν καὶ ἔριν τοῖσ μὲν ὡσ εὖ, τοῖσ δ’ ὡσ οὐκ εὖ γεγονυῖά ἐστιν ἐλάττω δὲ ἡ Ἡρακλεωτῶν δουλεία τῆσ τῶν Μαριανδυνῶν καταδουλώσεωσ ἔριν ἂν ἔχοι, τὸ Θετταλῶν τ’ αὖ πενεστικὸν ἔθνοσ, εἰσ ἃ καὶ πάντα ἀποβλέψαντασ ἡμᾶσ τί χρὴ ποιεῖν περὶ κτήσεωσ οἰκετῶν; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:46)
  • σχεδὸν γὰρ πάντων τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἡ Λακεδαιμονίων εἱλωτεία πλείστην ἀπορίαν παράσχοιτ’ ἂν καὶ ἔριν τοῖσ μὲν ὡσ εὖ, τοῖσ δ’ ὡσ οὐκ εὖ γεγονυῖά ἐστιν ‐ ἐλάττω δὲ ἥ τε Ἡρακλεωτῶν δουλεία τῆσ τῶν Μαριανδυνῶν καταδουλώσεωσ ἔριν ἂν ἔχοι, τὸ Θετταλῶν τ’ αὖ πενεστικὸν ἔθνοσ ‐ εἰσ ἃ καὶ πάντα τὰ τοιαῦτα βλέψαντασ ἡμᾶσ τί χρὴ ποιεῖν περὶ κτήσεωσ οἰκετῶν; (Plato, Laws, book 6 179:5)

Synonyms

  1. the condition of a Helot

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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