hecatontarchyn.
/hɛkəˈtɒntɑːki/ Government by a hundred rulers.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by specific number of rulers > [noun] > by a hundred
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1660 S. Ford Παραλληλα 37 One whiles we were under a Saxon Heptarchy again..sometimes under an Hecatontarchy (give me leave to frame a new name for a new thing).
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 202 What would come to pass if the choice of a governor or governors were referred to the thousands and millions of England? Beware a Heptarchy, again beware a hecatontarchy.
1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece X. ii. lxxvi. 98 The omnipotent Hekatontarchy named by the partisan feelings of Agesilaus.
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