ἀρχαῖα (archaia)

ἀρχαῖα is an Ancient Greek form of ἀρχαῖος, meaning “ancient, old”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 134 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.21.2: καὶ ὁ πόλεμος οὗτος, καίπερ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐν ᾧ μὲν ἂν πολεμῶσι τὸν παρόντα αἰεὶ μέγιστον κρινόντων, παυσαμένων δὲ τὰ ἀρχαῖα μᾶλλον θαυμαζόντων, ἀπ’ αὐτῶν τῶν ἔργων σκοποῦσι δηλώσει ὅμως μείζων γεγενημένος αὐτῶν.

Euripides, Hecuba 609: σὺ δʼ αὖ λαβοῦσα τεῦχος, ἀρχαία λάτρι,

Aristophanes, Clouds 984: ἀρχαῖά γε καὶ Διιπολιώδη καὶ τεττίγων ἀνάμεστα

All forms of ἀρχαῖος (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.