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δυ^ναστ-εία , ἡ,
A.power, lordship, domination, S.OT593, D.18.67; “δ. ὀλίγων ἀνδρῶν” Th.3.62; πολιτικαὶ δ. the exercise of political power, Pl. Tht.176c; “οἱ τὰς δ. ἔχοντες” Isoc.2.8, cf. 9.19, Plb.3.18.1.
II. close oligarchy, opp. ἰσονομία, Th.4.78, cf. And.2.27, X.HG5.4.46, etc.; “ὑπὸ τῶν ὀλίγων δ.” Pl.Plt.291d; opp. πολιτεία, Arist.Pol.1272b10; distd.fr. ὀλιγαρχία, ib.1292b10, cf. 1293a31: in pl., of the Roman Senate, D.C. 52.1.
III. in pl., mighty deeds, LXX 4 Ki.13.12, al.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (13):
    • Andocides, On his Return, 27
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 67
    • Isocrates, Evagoras, 19
    • Isocrates, To Nicocles, 8
    • Plato, Statesman, 291d
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 176c
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 593
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.78
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.62
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 5.4.46
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.18.1
    • Old Testament, 2 Kings, 13.12
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 52.1
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