μόναρχος
ἀεὶ δ' ἀρέσκειν τοῖς κρατοῦσιν → always try to please your masters, always be obsequious to the masters
English (LSJ)
Ion. μούν-, ὁ,
A monarch, sole ruler, first in Thgn.52 (in Ion. form, as Hdt.3.82,5.46), cf. Sol.9.3, etc.; τραχὺς μ. A.Pr.326; μονάρχους καταλύειν Th. 1.122; δῆμος, ἅτε μ. ὤν as sole ruler, Arist.Pol.1292a15; γῆς τῆσδε μ. Ar.Eq.1330. 2 princelet, dynast, OGI54.16 (Adule, iii B. C.): generally, leader, general, E.Rh.31 (lyr.). 3 = Lat. dictator, Plu. Cam.18. II title of magistrate at Cos, SIG1012.13, etc. b name of month at Cos, dub. in BMus.Inscr.339. III as Adj., σκᾶπτον μ. the royal sceptre, Pi.P.4.152.
German (Pape)
[Seite 201] alleinherrschend, der Monarch; σκᾶπτον μόναρχον, Pind. P. 4, 152, des Alleinherrschers Scepter; Aesch. Prom. 324; Ar. Equ. 1327; Thuc. 1, 122; Plat. Polit. 301 c u. Folgde; – ion. μούναρχος, Her. 3, 80 u. öfter, τὸν μούναρχον τῶν Ζαγκλαίων, 6, 23.
