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Definition of Oligarchs
1. oligarch [n] - See also: oligarch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oligarchs
Literary usage of Oligarchs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1848)
"1 The oligarchs—Bernese Mandate of 1526 in Favour of the Papacy— Discussion at
... The oligarchs of the cantons, the advocates of foreign pensions and ..."
2. Democracy in Europe: A History by Thomas Erskine May (1878)
"The oligarchs were overthrown: but the old democracy was not yet restored.
A limited constitution, distinguished by Aristotle as a polity, was established, ..."
3. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1892)
"VIH. democratic Syracuse lending its aid to the oligarchs of Leontinoi against
... The oligarchs of Leontinoi made an agreement Syracuse, with Syracuse by ..."
4. The Athenian Empire by George William Cox (1888)
"... and who, when it became clear that Alkibiades had lost his chance of returning
with the oligarchs, began to fear his enmity as leader of the democracy. ..."
5. A General History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Death of by George William Cox (1876)
"... the answer that he would be the bane of the Corinthian oligarchs determined
the latter to slay the babe as soon as it should be born. ..."
6. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"respectable classée, os they were called, they considered tliat the oligarchs
would not cause them Ws trouble than tli popular government, being ne they ..."
7. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest. With by William Smith (1897)
"§9. Advantages of the victory. §10. Proceedings at Corcyra. Slaughter of the
oligarchs. §11. Eighth year of the war. Capture of Cythera. § 12. ..."
8. The Constitutional Antiquities of Sparta and Athens by Gustav Gilbert (1895)
"... the oligarchs might make some violent attempt now that the coast of Asia Minor
was in Persian possession. The Athenians granted their request, ..."
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