Μοναρχία

one-man-rule, monarchy

Translated by Ronald Allen4 Apr 2009Vetting: high6 revisions

3 notes · 36 words
[Meaning] one-man-power.1
Polybius [writes]: "the security of monarchs lies overall in the goodwill and strength of their [sc. armies'] foreigners."2
Also [sc. attested is the cognate verb] m ["I exercise sole rule"]; [used] with a genitive.3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μοναρχία· μονοκρατία. Πολύβιος· ἡ τῶν μονάρχων ἀσφάλεια τοπαράπαν ἐν τῇ τῶν ξένων εὐνοίᾳ κεῖται καὶ δυνάμει. καὶ Μοναρχῶ· γενικῇ.

Betacode
*monarxi/a: monokrati/a. *polu/bios: h( tw=n mona/rxwn a)sfa/leia topara/pan e)n th=| tw=n ce/nwn eu)noi/a| kei=tai kai\ duna/mei. kai\ *monarxw=: genikh=|.

Notes (3)

  1. The headword is a feminine abstract noun in the nominative (and vocative) singular; see LSJ s.v. (The quotation which follows has the genitive plural of the cognate substantive mo/narxos, monarch; see LSJ s.v.)
  2. 1The glossing noun is much rarer than the headword. Besides here, it is attested only in poems of Gregory of Nazianzus (with an Ionic ending monokrati/h) and Theodore Prodromos (later than the Suda). ↩
  3. 2Polybius 11.13.8 (web address 1), where 'foreigners' effectively means mercenaries (cf. generally xi 33, xi 39, xi 44). The context is the third battle of Mantinea (OCD4 s.v. and s.v. 'Mantinea, battles of,' mu 165, and mu 163; Barrington Atlas map 58 grid C2) in 207 BCE; see Walbank, p. 284. ↩
  4. 3(See generally LSJ s.v.) Likewise in the Lexica Segueriana, De syntacticis s.v. ↩

References


F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. II, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967

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Revision history6 revisions · last 12 Sep 2020
  1. tweaked link — Catharine Roth
  2. coding — Catharine Roth
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. Revised — David Whitehead
  5. modified keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. expanded note 1 — Catharine Roth
  7. Translated — Ronald Allen

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