ἀρχόμενος (archomenos)

ἀρχόμενος is an Ancient Greek form of ἄρχω, meaning “to begin; to rule, lead”. It is the present middle/passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 111 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1: ἀρχόμενος σέο, Φοῖβε, παλαιγενέων κλέα φωτῶν

Plato, Sophist 237: … ποθέσθαι τὸ μὴ ὂν εἶναι· ψεῦδος γὰρ οὐκ ἂν ἄλλως ἐγίγνετο ὄν. Παρμενίδης δὲ ὁ μέγας, ὦ παῖ, παισὶν ἡμῖν οὖσιν ἀρχόμενός τε καὶ διὰ τέλους τοῦτο ἀπεμαρτύρατο, πεζῇ τε ὧδε ἑκάστοτε λέγων καὶ μετὰ μέτρων—οὐ γὰρ μήποτε τοῦτο δαμῇ, φη …

Lucian of Samosata, Pro lapsu inter salutandum 2: Ἀρχόμενος μὲν οὖν τῆς γραφῆς πάνυ ἀπόρῳ ἐντεύξεσθαι ᾤμην τῷ προβλήματι, προϊόντι δὲ πολλὰ προὐφάνη τὰ λεκτέα. οὐ μὴν πρ …

All forms of ἄρχω (conjugation 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.