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ὀλιγαρχικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀλιγαρχικός ὀλιγαρχική ὀλιγαρχικόν

Structure: ὀλιγαρχικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. oligarchical, of, for or like oligarchy
  2. inclined to oligarchy

Declension

First/Second 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

  • θεραπείασ γὰρ εἶναι τοῦτο δήμου παρασκευήν, τὸ δ’ ὅπωσ ἕξουσιν οἱ πολλοὶ πρὸσ τὸν λόγον ἀφροντιστεῖν ὀλιγαρχικοῦ καὶ βίᾳ, μᾶλλον ἢ πειθοῖ προσέχοντοσ. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 8 4:4)
  • τρίτον δ’ ἐκ δυοῖν ταγμάτοιν, τὰ μὲν ἐκ τοῦ ὀλιγαρχικοῦ νόμου τὰ δ’ ἐκ τοῦ δημοκρατικοῦ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 138:1)
  • ὅπου δὲ τὸ τῶν εὐπόρων καὶ γνωρίμων μᾶλλον ὑπερτείνει τῷ ποιῷ ἢ λείπεται τῷ ποσῷ, ἐνταῦθα ὀλιγαρχίαν, καὶ τῆσ ὀλιγαρχίασ τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ἕκαστον εἶδοσ κατὰ τὴν ὑπεροχὴν τοῦ ὀλιγαρχικοῦ πλήθουσ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 189:1)
  • πάλιν τοίνυν, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, λέγωμεν ὡσ ἐξ ὀλιγαρχικοῦ δημοκρατικὸσ γίγνεται. (Plato, Republic, book 8 353:1)
  • κατέστη εἰσ μέσον ἀμφοῖν τοῖν τρόποιν, καὶ μετρίωσ δή, ὡσ ᾤετο, ἑκάστων ἀπολαύων οὔτε ἀνελεύθερον οὔτε παράνομον βίον ζῇ, δημοτικὸσ ἐξ ὀλιγαρχικοῦ γεγονώσ. (Plato, Republic, book 9 28:1)

Synonyms

  1. inclined to oligarchy

Related

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

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