Harmost

Word HARMOST
Character 7
Hyphenation har most
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[Footnote A: A "harmost," [Greek: harmostês], was an officer sent from ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1839)

Autolycus was killed eventually by the Thirty to please the Lacedaemonian harmost. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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, ❋ Unknown (2007)

Cotyora receives a harmost from her mother-city, Sinope. ❋ Unknown (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). ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Various (N/A)

In B.C. 411 he was harmost at Abydos; in B.C. 399 he superseded Thimbron in Asia ❋ 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon (1874)

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. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ William Smith (1853)

She organized anti-Theban oligarchies in the Bœotian cities, with a Spartan harmost. ❋ John Lord (1852)

Lysander established in most of the cities an oligarchy of ten citizens, as well as a Spartan harmost, or governor. ❋ John Lord (1852)

Hippokrates, the harmost of the city, led out his forces and attacked the Athenians at the same time. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1839)

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. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1839)

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. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1839)

16 Technically armostes (harmost), i.e. administrator. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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