Thus arises timocracy, which is intermediate between aristocracy and oligarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic] Reference

The government of Athens, framed by Solon, was in effect a "timocracy," or rule of the rich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outline of Universal History] Reference

I know of no name for such a government other than timocracy or perhaps timarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference

The founding fathers created a timocracy in which most did not have the right to vote.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » IJ’s Bone Marrow Case: Rational Basis Test] Reference

Even the timocracy and oligarchy, for all their flaws, have public standards for value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic] Reference

One assumes that Avempace is referring to the four imperfect cities, namely, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ibn Bajja] Reference

The first of these declining States is timocracy, or the government of soldiers and lovers of honour, which answers to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference

He contrasts the ideal city, in which the wise rule, and two would-be aristocracies, the timocracy in which the militaristically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic] Reference

Come to think of it, one of the nations then current in the West on Earth had had a sort of Hamiltoni-anism of its own, something called a timocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cities In Flight]

As countries went, England was already among the most democratic and the government the rebels formed was a timocracy not that bad in my book, but worth noting to democratic fundamentalists.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Timothy McVeigh Was No Libertarian: The Fallacy of Conflating Two Very Different Types of “Anti-Government” Movements] Reference

As countries went, England was already among the most democratic and the government the rebels formed was a timocracy (not that bad in my book, but worth noting to democratic fundamentalists).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Timothy McVeigh Was No Libertarian: The Fallacy of Conflating Two Very Different Types of “Anti-Government” Movements] Reference

The best of these is monarchy, the worst timocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS] Reference

But how did timocracy arise out of the perfect State?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic] Reference

Modern examples of tyranny, oligarchy, and timocracy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

This would be timocracy -- a government by men of merit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Reason] Reference

Yes, that is the type of character that answers to timocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic of Plato] Reference

Yes, that is the type of character which answers to timocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic] Reference

The individual who answers to timocracy has some noticeable qualities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic] Reference

I know of no name for such a government other than timocracy or perhaps timarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic of Plato] Reference

I know of no name for such a government other than timocracy, or perhaps timarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic] Reference

Ought I not to begin by describing how the change from timocracy to oligarchy arises?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic] Reference

It is clear, for instance, that timocracy would exclude the family or greatly weaken it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Reason] Reference

The aristocracy will degenerate into four inferior forms of government: timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada Free Press] Reference

A timocracy would therefore seem to unite the advantages of all forms of government and to avoid their respective abuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Reason] Reference

First, then, I said, let us inquire how timocracy (the government of honor) arises out of aristocracy (the government of the best).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic of Plato] Reference

First, then, I said, let us enquire how timocracy (the government of honour) arises out of aristocracy (the government of the best).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic] Reference

Plato believed there are five forms of government: one just (aristocracy) and four unjust (democracy, timocracy, oligarchy, tyranny).    From Wordnik.com.  [Matangi Tonga Online -] Reference

The competitive motive which socialism is supposed to destroy would be restored in timocracy, and an incentive offered to excellence and industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Reason] Reference

If power remained in the people's hands, the government would be democratic; but a full development of timocracy would allow the proved leader to gain great ascendancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Reason] Reference

The accumulation of gold in the treasury of private individuals is the ruin of timocracy; they invent illegal modes of expenditure; for what do they or their wives care about the law?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic] Reference

The association of brothers is like timocracy; for they are equal, except in so far as they differ in age; hence if they differ much in age, the friendship is no longer of the fraternal type.    From Wordnik.com.  [The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS] Reference

timocracy passes over into democracy; for these are coterminous, since it is the ideal even of timocracy to be the rule of the majority, and all who have the property qualification count as equal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS] Reference

The first of these declining States is timocracy, or the government of soldiers and lovers of honour, which answers to the Spartan State; this is a government of force, in which education is not inspired by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic] Reference

A time arrives when the representative of timocracy has a son: at first he begins by emulating his father and walking in his footsteps, but presently he sees him of a sudden foundering against the State as upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic] Reference