The corpus record

ὀλῐγαρχ-ία

oligarchia · ἡ

oligarchy, government in the hands of a few families

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Where it lives

Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracy 12 · 59.55/10k
On the Confiscation of the Property Of The Brother Of Nicias 5 · 37.2/10k
Against Theomnestus 2 2 · 36.56/10k
Against The Subversion of the Ancestral Constitution 2 · 36.17/10k
Politics 190 · 29.09/10k
Against Ergocles 2 · 21.98/10k
On the Scrutiny of Evandros 3 · 21.74/10k
For the Liberty of the Rhodians 4 · 18.26/10k
Areopagiticus 8 · 17.49/10k
Against Theomnestus 1 2 · 13.42/10k
Against Euthynus 1 · 9.17/10k
Against Lochites 1 · 8.93/10k

Densest 12 of 51 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ὀλῐγαρχ-ία · oligarch-ia — LSJ

oligarchy, government in the hands of a few families, persons

oligarchy, government in the hands of a few families or persons, Hdt. 3.82, 5.92.βʹ, 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.

Ὀλιγαρχία, personified in a statue, Sch. Aeschin. 1.39.

In the wild

ὀλιγαρχίαν · oligarchian Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..13 (DIORISIS sentence 168)
ὀλιγαρχία · oligarchia Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..32 (DIORISIS sentence 404)
ὀλιγαρχίαν · oligarchian Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..34 (DIORISIS sentence 419)
ὀλιγαρχίας · oligarchias Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..34 (DIORISIS sentence 417)
ὀλιγαρχίαν · oligarchian Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..37 (DIORISIS sentence 434)
ὀλιγαρχίᾳ · oligarchiai Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..38 (DIORISIS sentence 447)

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