Meaning of helot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of the ancient Spartan class of serfs.
   historical
2. A serf; a slave.

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Examples

“[…] when one of their kings dies, not only the Spartans, but a certain number⟳ of the country people from every part of Laconia are forced, whether they will or no, to attend⟳ the funeral. So these persons and the helots, and likewise the Spartans themselves, flock together to the number⟳ of several thousands, men and women intermingled; and all of them smite their foreheads violently, and weep⟳ and wall without stint, saying always that their last⟳ king was the best.”

“A man who conceives and writes a great book, my friend, has done more work⟳ than all the helots that laboured on these pyramidal futilities.”

“All wore a costume suggestive of a more tranquil and prosperous age than this — Dame Clara Butt singing, in a voice not quite so deep as Arumugam's, 'Land⟳ of Hope⟳ and Glory', the gold squeezed from tropical helots enhancing the upper-class comforts of a cold climate.”

““In part, the blame⟳ falls on the corporate elite,” Barbara Ehrenreich wrote back in 1989, “which demands ever more bankers and lawyers, on the one hand, and low-paid helots on the other.” These low-paid helots are now unpaid interns and networked amateurs.”

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