HELOS, (anc. geog.), a maritime town of Laconia, situated between Trinasus and Acris, in Pausanias, No. 150.
fania's time in ruins. The district was called Helotea, and the people Helotes, Helotæ, Helii, and Helotæ, by Stephanus; and Helota, by Livy. Being subdued by the Lacedæmonians, they were all reduced to a state of public slavery, or made the slaves of the public, on these conditions, viz. that they neither could recover their liberty nor be sold out of the territory of Sparta. Hence the term HELOTES, in Harpocrition, for being in a state of slavery; and hence also the Lacedæmonians called the slaves of all nations whatever helotes. Heloticus is the epithet.