HARMOSTES, or HARMOSTA, in Antiquity, a sort of magistrate amongst the Spartans. Of these there were several, whose business it was to look to the building of citadels, and repairing the forts and fortifications of the cities. The word is ἡρμόστης, formed from ἡρμός, apto, concino, to adapt or concert.
HARMOSYNIANs, ἡρμόσυνος, in Antiquity, were magistrates amongst the Spartans, who, after the death of Lycurgus, were appointed to enforce the observance of that law of the Spartan legislator which required married women to wear a veil when they appeared in the streets, by which they were distinguished from single females, who were allowed to appear abroad with their faces uncovered.