helotry
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
helotry (countable and uncountable, plural helotries)
- (Ancient Greece) Collectively, the helots (slaves or bondsmen).
- 2005, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eugene D. Genovese, The Mind of the Master Class, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 289:
- Apparently influenced by Montesquieu's judgment that Spartan helotry combined the worst features of slavery and serfdom, Dew credited the Athenians with treating their slaves gently.
References[edit]
- “helotry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.