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Definition of Timocracies
1. timocracy [n] - See also: timocracy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Timocracies
Literary usage of Timocracies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Athens, Its Rise and Fall: With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1852)
"That the Achaean governments were democracies appears suffi ciently evident; nor
is this at variance with the remark of Xenophon. that timocracies were ..."
2. The Life of Reason; Or, The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana (1905)
"It is a spirit hardly to be maintained without a close organisation and much
training; and as military and religious timocracies have depended on discipline ..."
3. The Roman System of Provincial Administration to the Accession of by William Thomas Arnold (1879)
"Under the Empire timocracies seem to have been everywhere established. Only those
possessing a certain income were permitted the full 1 Plin. Ep. x. 56. ..."
4. The Roman System of Provincial Administration to the Accession of by William Thomas Arnold (1906)
"... at all events up to quite the end of the Republic.2 Under the Empire timocracies
seem to have been everywhere established.3 Only those possessing a ..."
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