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Definition of Harmost
1. n. A city governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them.
Definition of Harmost
1. Noun. (historical) A governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities they subjugated. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Harmost
1. a Spartan governor of a subject province [n -S]
Medical Definition of Harmost
1. A governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them. Origin: Gr, fr. To join, arrange, command: cf. F. Harmoste. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harmost
Literary usage of Harmost
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"( with the authority of harmost. His arrival released A spartan Critias and his
colleagues from all the restraints Ath?n°88.tat hitherto imposed on them by ..."
2. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation by George Grote (1888)
"At the time when Athens was a Decemvirs subject city under Sparta, governed by
the Lysan- are more drian Thirty and by the Lacedaemonian harmost in ..."
3. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation by George Grote (1862)
"... having been first probably sworn in other Arcadian cities, came to be sworn
also at Tegea—not only the city authorities, but also the Theban harmost, ..."
4. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, with by William Smith, George Washington Greene (1883)
"Hereupon the Theban harmost released the prisoners, protesting that he had been
misled by a false report of the approach of a Spartan force, ..."
5. Greece: II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens by George Grote (1900)
"... (as far as we can judge amidst contradictory statements,) for gross abuse of
authority, and extreme tyranny, as Lacedaemonian harmost at Byzantium, ..."
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