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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 τούτου ἡ κατασταθεῖσα ὑπὸ Κασσάνδρου ὀλιγαρχία κατελύθη, καὶ οἱ εἰσαγγελθέντεσ ἔφυγον, ἐν οἷσ καὶ Δείναρχοσ ἦν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 9 3:3)
  • ἐπίστασθε γὰρ ταῖσ ἐφ’ ἡμῶν ὀλιγαρχίαισ γεγενημέναισ καὶ οὐ τοὺσ γῆν κεκτημένουσ ἔχοντασ τὴν πόλιν, ἀλλὰ πολλοὺσ μὲν αὐτῶν ἀποθανόντασ, πολλοὺσ δ’ ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἐκπεσόντασ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 33 3:4)
  • ὀλιγαρχία δ’ ὑπερφροσύνην καὶ τὸ αὔθαδεσ · (Plutarch, De unius in republica dominatione, chapter, section 3 6:1)
  • ἡ μὲν οὖν ὀλιγαρχία τοῦτον κατέστη τὸν τρόπον, ἐπὶ Καλλίου μὲν ἄρχοντοσ, ἔτεσιν δ’ ὕστερον τῆσ τῶν τυράννων ἐκβολῆσ μάλιστα ἑκατὸν, αἰτίων μάλιστα γενομένων Πεισάνδρου καὶ Ἀντιφῶντοσ καὶ Θηραμένουσ, ἀνδρῶν καὶ γεγενημένων εὖ καὶ συνέσει καὶ γνώμῃ δοκούντων διαφέρειν. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 32 2:1)
  • παρέκβασισ δὲ τούτων τυραννὶσ ὀλιγαρχία δῆμοσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 164:1)
  • οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸν Ῥίνωνα διά τε τὴν εὔνοιαν τὴν εἰσ τὸν δῆμον ἐπῃνέθησαν, καὶ λαβόντεσ τὴν ἐπιμέλειαν ἐν ὀλιγαρχίᾳ, τὰσ εὐθύνασ ἔδοσαν ἐν δημοκρατίᾳ, καὶ οὐδεὶσ οὐδὲν ἐνεκάλεσεν αὐτοῖσ, οὔτε τῶν ἐν ἄστει μεινάντων, οὔτε τῶν ἐκ Πειραιέωσ κατελθόντων, ἀλλὰ διὰ ταῦτα καὶ στρατηγὸσ εὐθὺσ ᾑρέθη Ῥίνων. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 38 4:2)

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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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