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A stage of political development in which political and civil honors are distributed according to wealth.

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  • Thus arises timocracy, which is intermediate between aristocracy and oligarchy.
  • Aristotle's mode of using words, would have been called a timocracy; and this in some cities, as at Athens, became the conducting medium to democracy.
  • -- The government of Athens, framed by Solon, was in effect a "timocracy," or rule of the rich.
  • I know of no name for such a government other than timocracy or perhaps timarchy.
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