HEL 
called pofuraxe-, i.e. keepers of the laws. And the better 
_ to prevent all unjuft praétices, they were farther obliged to 
take an oath that they would a&t impartially, would take 
_no bribes, nor Pgh the reafon for which the ey difliked or 
approved of any of the contenders. At the folemnity they 
fat naked, ‘aihen before them the victorial crown till the exer- 
cifes were finifhed, and then it was prefented to whomfoever 
they adjudged it. Neverthilete there lay an appeal from the 
Hellenodice -to the Olympian fenate. The ireCtion and 
arrangement of all matters belonging to the Olympic fef- 
tival, “the proclaiming of =~ ceffation of arms, the excluding 
rom the facrifices thofe 
ellenodics as well as the fuper- 
intendence of the games, and the beftowment of the olive- 
crown. ‘This power of excommunicating thofe who were 
refractory or contumacious, which feems to have been ex- 
ercifed upon whole nations, rather than particular perfons, 
and pecuniary penalties inflicted by their orders upon private - 
vw greateft in dread of infringing the o 
offenders, held e 
lympic laws, ik a in order that vail affembly, which 
was compofed of men of = ranks and degrees, and of every 
In the public execution of 
of ex paietanbenitition, they were Soscual ies the joint 
concurrence of the 8, as well as the of Gree 
Welt Sete ae on the en Girne," § §. 3: Pott. 
heol. Grec. lib. ii. cap. 22. tom. i. p. 448. 
HELLENODICAU | mnbslnaae, the place where 
the hellenodicse were uled to affemble. 
HELLENOTAMI&, Brriaiaiis, Athenian officers 
appointed to receive the money due from the tributary 
cities, 
They were alfo called bellenotamie: 
HELLESPONT, in aoe: rte the name of 
eren 
re 
the itrait which Sorted a communication between the AS 
fea in the Archipelago and the Pro noe or the fea of 
a Thofe geographers who 
vey: form 
8, 
or Seftus, and Abydus. It 
was in th pare that Leander braved d the paflage of 
- flood for the — ek Sree his miftrefs, Here it was likewife, 
in a place, where between the oppofite banks 
a ceed 500 im a ftu- 
pesidows oy serdcemrs for the purpofe porting 
170 my (See Constanri- 
Atrait i fuppoted to have derived its 
's,"” and to have been called 
ae. ' 
& Minor, ecg shot a which al ben ae fsa ae 
HE DZ, 
was one of the ten provinces of the diocefe of Afia, in the 
Notitia Imperii. 
2LLIN, in Geogra phy, yy a town Be ip in the pro- 
ag to) Murcia; 17 mi . of Chin 
LLO; a tawii of Priifies: at the eaten extremity of 
set Hohe pS 3 12 miles N. of 
HEL Jou, in Biography, was 3s beehi in 1686, and 
deftined a re friends for the profeffion of theology, but, 
accidentally meeting with a book of c hemiftry, ‘he made 
that fcience the principal purfuit of his life.” From tlie 
year 1718 to 1732, he was employed as the compiler of tlie 
** Gazette de France.” He tranflated Schlutter’s work on 
the ** Fufions of Ores, and on Founderies,”’ and inferted his 
own notes and remarks. He publifhed a work, entitled 
« L’Art de la Teinture des Laines et Etoffes de "Lainies; # 
which is reckoned a very valuable treatife, and is the firlt in 
which chemical principles aré applied to the prattice of the 
urnifhed many articles to the ** Memoirs of the 
| 
Academy of Sciences,’”? and fome to the Royal Society of 
London, of which he was a member. He died at Paris 
in 1766. 
HELLOTIA, a ee in rig oe two eer one 
big a was <eelebebte n honour o 
vii oe 
aécount of “gr 7 trl in Pott. -Avtheeol Gree. lib. ii. 
cap. 20. tom. i. 
HELLOTIS, oat riz, a myrtle garland, carried in 
Spe with Europa’s bones at the feftival called Hel- 
Siar garland was no lefs than twenty cubits in circum- 
» in the Jron Manufacture, are fmall blaft fur- 
fo ufed for the eqs of iron for oe at the 
ound 
helm is ufually yor of three parts, 
viz. ee rudder, the sie and the wheel, except in {mall 
Tary. 
> eter ‘anhie the. See pos LEE. 
See BEARING. 
See Ricut. 
ARD. 
hemifiry, is the fided not a ftill or alembie; 
thus calle bees Ms figure it fometimes refembles a helm 
the or helme 
Heit; to bring the thing over the helm is the fame as te 
fore it by fire up to the to ree i heh 
down i to the b 
into receiver tale a brought ater 
fixe 
da nature to be 
Fi 
ne 
oF 
to tsar a hovel, It is metimes 5 
to aye) Straw ately for ithe = parole of thatch. See 
| HELMSTADT, i in Geagraphys a town © 
the'principality of Wolfenbuttle, con cota two fauxbourg% 
Afia three churches, and an univerlity by ¢ _— 
in 1576, an anatomical theatre, and a public am 
= Mi Sremiakens oh 
tage ENS oe j 
