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harmost|ˈhɑːmɒst| Also 8 harmoste. [ad. Gr. ἁρµοστής, f. ἁρµόζειν to fit, settle, regulate.] One of the governors sent out by the Lacedæmonians during their supremacy (after the Peloponnesian war) to control the subject cities and islands.
1775in Ash. 1797Holcroft Stolberg's Trav. (ed. 2) IV. xci. 65 After the battle of Leuctra..the Spartans sent no more Harmostes. 1852Grote Greece IX. 261 The few details which we possess respecting these harmosts..are all for the most part discreditable. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets Ser. i. i. (1877) 27 Her generals and harmosts made use of their authority for the indulgence of their private vices. |