δῠναστ-εία, ἡ,
power, lordship, domination, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 593, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.67; δ. ὀλίγων ἀνδρῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.62 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πολιτικαὶ δ. the exercise of political power, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 176c; οἱ τὰς δ. ἔχοντες 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.8, compare 9.19, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.18.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II close oligarchy, opposed to ἰσονομία, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.78, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.27, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.46, etc.; ὑπὸ τῶν ὀλίγων δ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 291d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to πολιτεία, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1272b10; distinguished from ὀλιγαρχία, [prev. work] 1292b10, compare 1293a31 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: in plural, of the Roman Senate, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 52.1. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III in plural, mighty deeds, [[ LXX.2Ki.13.12, +others ] LXX]