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HARMOSTES

Volume 5 · 45 words · 1810 Edition

Harmosta, in antiquity, a sort of magistrates among the Spartans, whereof there were several, whose business was to look to the building of citadels, and repairing the forts and fortifications of the cities.—The word is aquosus, formed of aquosus, opto, concino, “I adapt, concert,” &c.