harmost
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of harmost
1765–75; < Greek harmostḗs, derivative of harmózein to regulate, govern, join
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Harmost, h�r′most, n. a Spartan governor of a subject city or province.—n.
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She organized anti-Theban oligarchies in the Bœotian cities, with a Spartan harmost.
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Lysander established in most of the cities an oligarchy of ten citizens, as well as a Spartan harmost, or governor.
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Lysander now at once subverted the constitution, establishing thirty archons in the city, and ten in Peiræus, placing also a garrison in the Acropolis under the command of Kallibius, who acted as harmost, or governor.
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He now destroyed the democratic and popular constitutions in all the Greek cities which had been subject to Athens, placing a Lacedæmonian in each as harmost or governor, with a council of ten archons under him, composed of men selected from the political clubs which he had established.
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