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ὀλιγαρχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀλιγαρχία

Structure: ὀλιγαρχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from o)liga/rxhs

Sense

  1. an oligarchy, government in the hands of a few families or persons

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐπὶ δὲ Θεέλλου τοῦ μετὰ Ἀριστόδημον τὴν περὶ Ῥοδίων ἀπήγγειλε δημηγορίαν, ἐν ᾗ πείθει τοῦσ Ἀθηναίουσ καταλῦσαι τὴν ὀλιγαρχίαν αὐτῶν καὶ τὸν δῆμον ἐλευθερῶσαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 4 2:1)
  • οὔκουν εἰκὸσ φίλον ὄντα τὸν Δείναρχον τῶν τὴν ὀλιγαρχίαν καταστησάντων τοῖσ καταλύειν ἐπιχειροῦσιν συναγωνίζεσθαι, οὐδ’ αὐτοὺσ Ἀθή νηθε λόγουσ καταλαμβάνειν οἱο͂́ν τ’ ἐστί. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 11 4:9)
  • καθά φασι τρεῖσ εἶναι πολιτείασ, μοναρχίαν καὶ ὀλιγαρχίαν καὶ δημοκρατίαν, ὧν καὶ Ἡρόδοτοσ ἐν τῇ τρίτῃ σύγκρισιν πεποίηται· (Plutarch, De unius in republica dominatione, chapter, section 3 1:1)
  • ταύτασ καὶ πλεῖστον καὶ μέγιστον ἐν ἡγεμονίαισ δυνηθείσασ τῶν ἐθνῶν ἀπεκληρώσαντο τὰσ πολιτείασ, Πέρσαι μὲν αὐτοκρατῆ βασιλείαν καὶ ἀνυπεύθυνον, Σπαρτιᾶται δ’, ἀριστοκρατικὴν ὀλιγαρχίαν καὶ αὐθέκαστον, Ἀθηναῖοι δ’, αὐτόνομον καὶ ἄκρατον δημοκρατίαν. (Plutarch, De unius in republica dominatione, chapter, section 3 3:1)
  • τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ὁ πολιτικὸσ ἀνὴρ εὖ μὲν ὀλιγαρχίαν Λακωνικὴν καὶ Λυκούργειον μεταχειριεῖται, συναρμοσάμενοσ αὑτῷ τοὺσ ἰσοκρατεῖσ καὶ ὁμοτίμουσ ἄνδρασ, ἡσυχῇ προσβιαζόμενοσ· (Plutarch, De unius in republica dominatione, chapter, section 4 2:1)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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