Πρώταρχε (Protarche)

Πρώταρχε is an Ancient Greek form of Πρώταρχος, meaning “Protarchos — an engraver of precious stones, whose name occurs on a very beautiful gem in the Florentine…”. It is the vocative singular masculine noun or adjective.

It can also be a form of πρώταρχος, “primal”. It is the vocative singular masculine adjective.

Found 62 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plato, Philebus 11: ὅρα δή, Πρώταρχε, τίνα λόγον μέλλεις παρὰ Φιλήβου δέχεσθαι νυνὶ καὶ πρὸς τίνα τὸν παρʼ ἡμῖν ἀμφισβητεῖν, ἐὰν μή σοι κατὰ νοῦν …

Aesop, Fables 281: … ἀγάγῃ, καὶ μοιράσῃ τοῖς πᾶσι. Ταῦτʼ οὖν ὄνος ἀκηκοὼς, τὴν χαίτην ἔσεισε καὶ γελῶν ἔφη τάδε· „καλῶς εἴρηκας, ὦ πρώταρχε τῶν λύκων· ἀλλὰ πῶς σὺ χθὲς ἣν ἐκράτησας ἄγραν, κοίτῃ παρέθου τῇ ἰδίᾳ λαθραίως εἰς τροφήν σοι; κόμισον ταύτην …

All forms of Πρώταρχος (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.