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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

  • καὶ καταστὰσ πάλιν ἐξ ὑπαρχῆσ ἐδημηγόρησε, νεανικῶσ τῶν ὀλιγαρχικῶν καὶ τῷ Πομπηίῳ φθονούντων καθαπτόμενοσ. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 9 6:3)
  • ἐλέχθησαν μὲν οὖν πολλοί τε καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν κρατίστων ἀνδρῶν εἰσ ἀμφότερα καὶ τὸ συγχωρεῖν καὶ τὸ κωλύειν φέροντεσ λόγοι, ἐνίκα δ’ ἡ τὰ δημοτικώτερα πρὸ τῶν ὀλιγαρχικῶν εἰσάγουσα Τίτου Ῥωμιλίου γνώμη, παρὰ τὴν ἁπάντων δόξαν τῶν τε πατρικίων καὶ τῶν δημοτικῶν γενομένη. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 50 4:2)
  • ἄνδρεσ τε συχνοὶ λαμβάνοντεσ ἐκ τῶν πλησίον ἐργαστηρίων τὰ μὲν ὠνῇ, τὰ δὲ χάριτι συνεπεκόσμουν τοῖσ προσφόροισ δωρήμασι τὴν ἐκκομιδήν, ὥστε περιβόητον ἀνὰ τὴν πόλιν γενέσθαι τὸ κῆδοσ, καὶ προθυμίαν ἅπαντασ καταλαβεῖν τῆσ τῶν ὀλιγαρχικῶν καταλύσεωσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 39 10:1)
  • εἰ μὲν γὰρ τῶν κτημάτων χάριν ἐκοινώνησαν καὶ συνῆλθον, τοσοῦτον μετέχουσι τῆσ πόλεωσ ὅσον περ καὶ τῆσ κτήσεωσ, ὥσθ’ ὁ τῶν ὀλιγαρχικῶν λόγοσ δόξειεν ἂν ἰσχύειν οὐ γὰρ εἶναι δίκαιον ἴσον μετέχειν τῶν ἑκατὸν μνῶν τὸν εἰσενέγκαντα μίαν μνᾶν τῷ δόντι τὸ λοιπὸν πᾶν, οὔτε τῶν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ οὔτε τῶν ἐπιγινομένων· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 3 127:2)
  • πολλὰ γὰρ τῶν δοκούντων δημοτικῶν λύει τὰσ δημοκρατίασ καὶ τῶν ὀλιγαρχικῶν τὰσ ὀλιγαρχίασ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 5 192:1)

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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