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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Greek antiquity, the title of the governors appointed by the Lacedæmonians, during their supremacy after the Peloponnesian war, over subject or conquered towns; hence, in general, a military governor of a colony or province.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Gr. Antiq.) A city governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them.

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  • noun historical A governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities they subjugated.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek. See harmony.

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Examples

  • [Footnote A: A "harmost," [Greek: harmostês], was an officer sent from

    Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • Sparta, Lysander, taking into account the possibility of speedily reducing the party in Piraeus by blockading them by land and sea, and so cutting them off from all supplies, supported the application, and negotiated the loan of one hundred talents115 to his clients, backed by the appointment of himself as harmost on land, and of his brother,

    Hellenica 2007

  • Cotyora receives a harmost from her mother-city, Sinope.

    Anabasis 2007

  • Autolycus was killed eventually by the Thirty to please the Lacedaemonian harmost.

    Symposium 2007

  • He then sailed across the Aegean, replacing pro-Athenian democracies on the allied islands with oligarchies of Ten (decarchies) under a Spartan overseer (harmost).

    3. The Decelean (Or Ionian) War 2001

  • Alcibiades, after a severe blockade (408 B.C.), gained possession of the city through the treachery of the Athenian party; in 405 B.C. it was retaken by Lysander and placed under a Spartan harmost.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • Piraeus by blockading them by land and sea, and so cutting them off from all supplies, supported the application, and negotiated the loan of one hundred talents (13) to his clients, backed by the appointment of himself as harmost on land, and of his brother, Libys, as admiral of the fleet.

    Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • In B.C. 411 he was harmost at Abydos; in B.C. 399 he superseded Thimbron in Asia

    Anabasis 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • Clearchus, a Lacedaemonian, and formerly harmost of Byzantium, who had been condemned to death by the Spartan authorities for disobedience to their orders.

    A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest William Smith 1853

  • But Critias, and the more violent party among them, still called for more blood; and with the view of obtaining it, procured a Spartan garrison, under the harmost Callibius, to be installed in the Acropolis.

    A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest William Smith 1853

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