ὀλιγαρχία
Μηκέθ᾽ ὅλως περὶ τοῦ οἷόν τινα εἶναι τὸν ἀγαθὸν ἄνδρα διαλέγεσθαι, ἀλλὰ εἶναι τοιοῦτον. → Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
English (LSJ)
Ion.
A -ιη IG12(8).262.3 (Thasos, v B. C.), etc. : ἡ :—oligarchy, government in the hands of a few families or persons, Hdt.3.82, 5.92.β', etc. ; of the time of the Four Hundred, Th.8.72 ; or of the Thirty, And.1.99, Pl.Ap.32c ; ἄκρατος ὀ. Arist.Pol.1273b37, al., cf. Pl.R.550c sq., Plt.291e. 2 Ὀλιγαρχία, personified in a statue, Sch.Aeschin.1.39.
German (Pape)
[Seite 320] ἡ, die Oligarchie, die Staatsverfassung, bei welcher einige wenige Personen od. Familien herrschen; Her. 3, 82; Thuc. 1, 19. 8, 73; von der Herrschaft der 30 Männer, Lys. 10, 4; Plat. Polit. 301 c Rep. VIII, 544 c u. öfter; vgl. bes. Arist. pol. 3, 8. 4, 4.
