in Ancient Geography, a maritime town of Laconia, situated between Trinassus and Acrasia. In Pausanias's time it was in ruins. This district was called Helota, and the people Helotes, Helotae, Helei, and Heleate, by Stephanus, and Hota by Livy. Being subdued by the Lacedemonians, they were all reduced to a state of public slavery, or made the slaves of the public, on the condition that they could neither recover their liberty nor be sold out of the territory of Sparta. Hence the term idon, in Harpocration, for being in a state of slavery; and hence also the Lacedemonians called the slaves of all nations whatsoever helotes. The epithet is Heloticus.