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ὀχλοκρατία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀχλοκρατία

Structure: ὀχλοκρατι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. mob-rule

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

  • τρία μὲν ἃ πάντεσ θρυλοῦσι καὶ νῦν προείρηται, τρία δὲ τὰ τούτοισ συμφυῆ, λέγω δὲ μοναρχίαν, ὀλιγαρχίαν, ὀχλοκρατίαν. (Polybius, Histories, book 6, chapter 4 6:1)
  • οὗ γενομένου τῶν μὲν ὀνομάτων τὸ κάλλιστον ἡ πολιτεία μεταλήψεται, τὴν ἐλευθερίαν καὶ δημοκρατίαν, τῶν δὲ πραγμάτων τὸ χείριστον, τὴν ὀχλοκρατίαν. (Polybius, Histories, book 6, viii. conclusio disputationis de romanorum re publica 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. mob-rule

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

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