Meanings of helot in English

Explain the following terms: oracle; amphictyony; helot; Hellas; Olympiad; and ephors.

This is not the middle ages; I am an Englishman, not a helot.

Am I a helot, that you should offer to buy my very soul?

He was a helot in the great hunt of helots that the masters were making.

The lot of the negro slave, compared with that of the Irish helot, was happiness itself.

And no helot, either.

We have likened the Norman to the Spartan, and, most of all, he was like him in his scorn of the helot.

The hapless helot, punished incessantly for not having the one thing that was wanted of her, a fortune, took up her cards.

Little by little, he had become to his wife so indulgent and so affectionate, that the poor helot felt her heart touched.

It were making a helot of a free man, and you do not love me, Fanfulla, if you drive this argument further.

The hideous, helot-like uniform of the German private hung loosely on their shoulders, and the color of their skin was unhealthy and greenish.

She has all the satisfaction of knowing better, without the turmoil of competition, a fact which distinguishes the superior spirit from the struggling helot.

On all hands Mr. Drury could see the evidence of a master conspiracy against the farmer, who was to become the helot of civilization.

Is Alcman the helot who revealed, to the Ephors, the gigantic plots of his master just when those plots were on the eve of execution?

Yet their force, including the Tegeans and helots, was fifty-three thousand men.

Why, just a narrow, jealous race-hatred which makes helots of British men.