Meaning of oligarchia | Babel Free

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1. oligarchy
   Late-Latin, declension-1, feminine
2. Equivalent to 'Oligarchy': A government run by and for only a few, often the aristocracy, the wealthy, or their friends and associates.

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“Genus humanum solum imperante Monarcha, sui, et non alterius gratia, est: tunc enim solum Politiae diriguntur obliquae, democratiae scilicet, oligarchiae atque tyrannides, quae in servitute cogunt genus humanum.”

Only when the monarch rules, mankind exists for his own sake, and not of others: for only then are the twisted governments rightened, namely democracies, oligarchies and tyrannies, which force mankind into slavery.

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