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Headword:
*ei(lwti/s
Adler number: epsiloniota,135
Translated headword: helot-woman, female helot
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the female slave.
Greek Original:*ei(lwti/s: h( dou/lh.
Notes:
Like
epsiloniota 132 (and
epsiloniota 134), this gloss reflects the mistaken view that the Lakedaimonian helots were slaves rather than serfs.
For this feminine form of the word see
Plutarch,
Agesilaus 3.1 (=
Duris FGrH 76 F63); also e.g. listed among ethnics by Herodian,
De prosodia catholica 3.1.103.12, and by
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v. Helos.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; women
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 7 February 2005@06:13:52.
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