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τυραννικήν (tyranniken)

τυραννικήν is an Ancient Greek form of τυραννικός, meaning “tyrannical”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Theseus and Romulus 2.1: … ῶν γεγονότων, οὐδέτερος διεφύλαξε τὸν βασιλικὸν τρόπον ἐξέστη δὲ καὶ μετέβαλε μεταβολὴν ὁ μὲν δημοτικήν, ὁ δὲ τυραννικήν, ταὐτὸν ἀπʼ ἐναντίων παθῶν ἁμαρτόντες. δεῖ γὰρ τὸν ἄρχοντα σῴζειν πρῶτον αὐτὴν τὴν ἀρχήν σῴζεται δʼ οὐχ ἧττον …

Plutarch, Comparison of Solon and Publicola 2.3: … των τυραννεῖν καὶ τῶν πολιτῶν οὐκ ἀκουσίως δεχομένων ἀπεῖπεν, οὐχ ἧττον ὑπάρχει καλὸν τῷ Ποπλικόλᾳ τὸ λαβόντα τυραννικὴν ἀρχὴν ποιῆσαι δημοτικωτέραν καὶ μηδʼ οἷς ἐξῆν ἔχοντα χρήσασθαι. καὶ τοῦτο δʼ ἔοικε συνιδεῖν πρότερος ὁ Σόλων, …

All forms of τυραννικός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.