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Headword:
Ἁρμοσταί
Adler number: alpha,3979
Translated headword: harmosts
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Those appointed from a king/emperor to peoples.
"The Faliscans paid heed to none of the natives as harmost, suspecting them all."[1]
Harmosts then were those sent out by [the] Lakedaimonians to rule their subject cities.[2]
Greek Original:Ἁρμοσταί: οἱ ἀπὸ βασιλέως στελλόμενοι εἰς ἔθνη. οἱ δὲ Φαλίσκοι οὐδενὶ προσεῖχον τῶν ἐπιχωρίων ἁρμοστῇ πάντας ὑφορώμενοι. Ἁρμοσταὶ οὖν οἱ ὑπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων εἰς τὰς ὑπηκόους πόλεις ἄρχοντες ἐκπεμπόμενοι.
Notes:
[1] Quotation (transmitted via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable -- but for the Faliscans [
phi 52] of central Italy, under Roman control by the mid C3 BCE, see generally OCD(3) 585-6.
[2] Abridged from Harpokration s.v., who cites
Eratosthenes (FGrH 241 F24) and
Demosthenes (18.96); cf.
epsilon 2584. It was the Lakedaimonians (Spartans) of the late C5 BCE, as far as is known, who coined the word (which literally means "fixer"). See generally OCD(3) 667.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 August 2001@20:34:10.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added notes; cosmetics) on 12 August 2001@06:04:21.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks) on 4 March 2011@06:04:14.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 30 June 2011@09:29:20.
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