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HARMOSYNIANS

Volume 11 · 59 words · 1842 Edition

ἀγωρεύται, 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.