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Перевод: oligarch

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олигарх

Тезаурус:

1. With the free hand in Boiotia given her by Myronides' victory at Oinophyta, Athens, exceptionally, is said to have supported the oligarchs there ( Old Oligarch = Ps.Xen.
2. Thanks to Macaulay, he lives in history as the very type of a Whig oligarch.
3. Little explicit literary evidence confirms this view of the Council; there is for instance nothing in the pamphlet we call the Old Oligarch , written in c.425, although in other contexts it does comment on the influence at Athens enjoyed by the wealthy and well-born.
4. In one of the central episodes in the novel, Humberto not only cuckolds his employer, but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender, and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is, in reality, no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Pealoza line into the oligarchy.
5. Writers such as Aristotle, and a century before him the so-called Old Oligarch - both unsympathetic to democracy - naturally used terms such as the virtuous, the noble, the best, the few, the notable, the wealthy, almost interchangeably, and contrasted this elite group with another, called variously the mob, the poor, the mass, the worse, and so on.