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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

  • ἀλλ’ ἔτι τοῦτο ὀλιγαρχικώτερον· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 3 150:3)
  • ὀλιγαρχικώτερον δὲ καὶ τὸ ἐξ ἀμφοῖν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 270:1)
  • τῷ δ’ ὄντι μετεπέμπετο τοὺσ Κορινθίουσ ὁ Δίων, ἣν ἐπενόει πολιτείαν ῥᾷον ἐλπίζων καταστήσειν ἐκείνων παραγενομένων, ἐπενόει δὲ τὴν μὲν ἄκρατον δημοκρατίαν, ὡσ οὐ πολιτείαν, ἀλλὰ παντοπώλιον οὖσαν πολιτειῶν, κατὰ τὸν Πλάτωνα, κωλύειν, Λακωνικὸν δέ τι καὶ Κρητικὸν σχῆμα μιξάμενοσ ἐκ δήμου καὶ βασιλείασ, ἀριστοκρατίαν ἔχον τὴν ἐπιστατοῦσαν καὶ βραβεύουσαν τὰ μέγιστα, καθιστάναι καὶ κοσμεῖν, ὁρῶν καὶ τοὺσ Κορινθίουσ ὀλιγαρχικώτερόν τε πολιτευομένουσ καὶ μὴ πολλὰ τῶν κοινῶν ἐν τῷ δήμῳ πράττοντασ. (Plutarch, Dion, chapter 53 2:1)

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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