Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ὄφελοσ γὰρ οὐθὲν τῶν ὠφελιμωτάτων νόμων καὶ συνδεδοξασμένων ὑπὸ πάντων τῶν πολιτευομένων, εἰ μὴ ἔσονται εἰθισμένοι καὶ πεπαιδευμένοι ἐν τῇ πολιτείᾳ, εἰ μὲν οἱ νόμοι δημοτικοί, δημοτικῶσ, εἰ δ’ ὀλιγαρχικοί, ὀλιγαρχικῶσ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 5 202:2)
  • χρῆν τοίνυν καὶ τοὺσ τὴν ὑπὸ τῶν προγόνων τάξιν ἐν τῇ πολιτείᾳ παραδεδομένην λιπόντασ καὶ πολιτευομένουσ ὀλιγαρχικῶσ ἀτίμουσ τοῦ συμβουλεύειν ὑμῖν αὐτοῖσ ποιεῖσθαι· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 43:1)
  • φαῦλοσ ἤ τινοσ νίκησ ἢ ἄλλησ φιλοτιμίασ τῶν καλῶν, χρήματά τε οὐκ ἐθέλων εὐδοξίασ ἕνεκα καὶ τῶν τοιούτων ἀγώνων ἀναλίσκειν, δεδιὼσ τὰσ ἐπιθυμίασ τὰσ ἀναλωτικὰσ ἐγείρειν καὶ συμπαρακαλεῖν ἐπὶ συμμαχίαν τε καὶ φιλονικίαν, ὀλίγοισ τισὶν ἑαυτοῦ πολεμῶν ὀλιγαρχικῶσ τὰ πολλὰ ἡττᾶται καὶ πλουτεῖ. (Plato, Republic, book 8 242:1)

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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