Cicero was not a Gracchus, anxious to throw himself into the arms of the people; he was an oligarch by conviction, born to oligarchy, bred to it, convinced that by it alone could the Roman Republic be preserved.
No oligarch hated Cæsar more violently than he, and the decision of Pompeius was a great personal triumph, the crowning of many years of political intrigue.
And the oligarch is third from the royal; since we count as one royal and aristocratical?
And the drone, as we called him, is the slave of these unnecessary pleasures and desires, whereas the miserly oligarch is subject only to the necessary.
To be "primus inter pares" had been Cicero's ambition--to be the leading oligarch of the day.
The nature of the reward to which the aspiring oligarch of Rome always turned his eyes has been sufficiently explained.
The accusations have been made by men clean-handed themselves; but to them it has appeared unreasonable to believe that a Roman oligarch of those days should be an honest gentleman.
It was quite understood that an aspiring oligarch went through the dust and danger and expense of political life in order that at last he might fill his coffers with provincial plunder.
The official permission to occupy Wake Robin Lodge is still on the records, signed by no less a man than Wickson, the minor oligarch of the Manuscript.
He rose high under the rule of the Iron Heel and finally was translated into the oligarch class.
On the other hand, we could not dream of allowing the young oligarch to depart.
This phenomenon was almost as common in the oligarch class and the labor castes, as it was in the ranks of the revolutionists.
I cannot lay too great stress upon this high ethical righteousness of the whole oligarch class.
Ostensibly an oligarch until his death, he was in reality one of the most valuable of our agents.
All trace of the youngoligarch must be obliterated.
He was a beardless young fellow, a cadet, evidently, of some great oligarch family.
I have often heard a dear old English oligarch say that Dickens could not describe a gentleman, while every note of his own voice and turn of his own hand recalled Sir Leicester Dedlock.
What Dickens and other romancers do probably omit from the picture of the eighteenth-century oligarch is probably his liberality.
Is it because he is the constitutionally invested oligarch of government?
The martial poet Tyrtaeus, and the oligarch Theognis, furnish him with happy illustrations of the two sorts of courage.
He replaced Rem Vyakhirev, the oligarch that ran Gazprom, with his own protégé.
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