To live on the labors of a helot people blunts the finer sensibilities of men and women alike; when you can look unshrinkingly at the separation of husband and wife on the auction-block, when you can see innocent children taken from their mothers and sold into eternal separation, I think it is not unnatural in me to fear that a woman with my convictions would not be happy mated with a Southerner.

The patrician caste of the city still held its own, aided by the helot hand of slavery.

His attentions to Professor Hailstones at Harrowgate were graciously offered and received; but in a letter to Murray he gives a graphically abusive account of Porson, "hiccuping Greek like a Helot" in his cups.

Helots in our own country, how could we do better outside?

They are forgetful of mercies, ungrateful, rebellious, childish in their hankerings for a country where they had been more oppressed than Spartan Helots, idolatrous, and superstitious.

We know the distinctions of society,citizens and helots, and their mutual relations,the distribution of lands to check luxury, the public men, the public training of youth, the severe discipline to which all were subjected, the cruelty exercised towards slaves, the attention given to gymnastic exercises and athletic sports,in short, the habits and customs of the people rather than any regular system of jurisprudence.

We shall have officers and men of a different class,the Spartan on the quarter-deck, the Helot in the forecastle.

Have you gauged the importance of your tremendous consumption of quack catholicons, of the fortunes derived from their sale, of the spread of modern nervous disorders, of toothless youth and thrice loathsome age among the helot-classes?

Some of its more offensive features, such as the Cryptia, child murder, and more glaring atrocities of the Helot system, are suppressed; while the legalized thieving, adultery, and other unnatural practices, are placed in the most favourable or least odious light.]

To books, then, I betake myself,to books, "the immortal children" of "the understanding, courage, and abilities" of the wise and good,ay! and to inane, drivelling, doting books, the bastard progeny of vanity and ignorance,books over which one dawdles in an amusing dream and pleasant spasm of amazement, and which teach us wisdom as tipsy Helots taught the Spartan boys sobriety.

So Palladius marched on the town of Cardamila, where Clitophon was captive, and having by a stratagem obtained entry, put the Helots to flight, but ere the Arcadians could reach the prison, the captain of the Helots, who had been absent, returned and rallied them.

So Palladius marched on the town of Cardamila, where Clitophon was captive, and having by a stratagem obtained entry, put the Helots to flight, but ere the Arcadians could reach the prison, the captain of the Helots, who had been absent, returned and rallied them.

HELOT, the drunken, iii. 379.

By Jean-Valery Helot.

Jean-Valery Helot (A); 30Jun76; R636157.

By Jean-Valery Helot.

Jean-Valery Helot (A); 30Jun76; R636157.

Some of its more offensive features, such as the Cryptia, child murder, and more glaring atrocities of the Helot system, are suppressed; while the legalized thieving, adultery, and other unnatural practices, are placed in the most favourable or least odious light.]

"As the spectacle of the reeling Helot taught the Spartans sobriety, so his bitterness shall teach me moderation.

Their heads seem beaten down, a Helot population, and the Cuchullins stand back like an army of iron conquerors.

To-day I do not laugh any more at the race that depends on inefficient helot races for its inefficient service.

All are masters of the Helot race upon which their success and station are built.

BRASIDAS, a Spartan general, distinguished in the Peloponnesian war; his most celebrated action, the defeat at the expense of his life, in 422 B.C., of the flower of the Athenian army at Amphipolis, with a small body of helots and mercenaries.

As envoy, although an official, I still had the feeling of being a gentleman; as [Parliamentary] Minister one is a helot.

" "What are they, then?" "Oh, the Helots of the professionhewers of wood engravings, and drawers of water-colors, with a sprinkling of daguerreotypists, and academy students.