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ἠρξάμεθα. II 368 E note ὄνομα γὰρ κτλ.: ‘for I have no other name in our language for it: we must call it either “timarchy” or “timocracy”’ (“Ehrenherrschaft oder Ehrenobmacht” Schneider). Plato called the constitution in question φιλότιμος πολιτεία, which may be cumbrous, but is certainly Greek. If we want a single name, we must, he says, invent: and either τιμαρχία or τιμοκρατία will do. The Oxford editors erroneously suggest that ἢ—κλητέον is interrogative: nor is there any reason to suspect the text, as W. H. Thompson did. Both of Plato's coinages survived, but they never became popular, and were used in another sense from Plato's—τιμοκρατία with the meaning of the vox nihili τιμηματοκρατία or ἡ ἀπὸ τιμημάτων ἀρχή (Arist. Eth. Nic. VIII 12. 1160^{a} 36) and τιμαρχία for the Roman censorship (Stephanus-Hase Thes. s.v.). πρὸς -- ταύτην=‘ad hanc’: cf. IX 577 B and Tim. 24 A τοὺς μὲν οὖν νόμους σκόπει πρὸς τοὺς τῇδε (Schneider).
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
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