| Even the timocracy and oligarchy, for all their flaws, have public standards for value. |
| This conception of democracy is broad enough to include even variants of timocracy. |
| The constitution in the Laws is a timocracy of wealth, modified by an aristocracy of merit. |
| It has similar features to timocracy, but it is different to it in many ways. |
| Ought I not to begin by describing how the change from timocracy to oligarchy arises? |
| This happens because of the treasuries of gold that the individuals in the timocracy have. |
