ἄρξαντα (arxanta)

ἄρξαντα is an Ancient Greek form of ἄρχω, meaning “to begin; to rule, lead”. It is the aorist active participle accusative singular masculine.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Sulla 36.4: εἰ δὲ δεῖ καὶ τῶν ἀπʼ οὐδενὸς μὲν χρηστοῦ γνωρίμων δὲ ἄλλως ἐπιμνησθῆναι, λέγεται τὸν ἄρξαντα τοῦ δουλικοῦ πολέμου περὶ Σικελίαν δραπέτην, Εὔνουν ὄνομα, μετὰ τὴν ἅλωσιν εἰς Ῥώμην ἀγόμενον ὑπὸ φθειριάσεως ἀποθανεῖν.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 52.39.2: κατὰ τῶν λοιπῶν φράσω. ἂν γὰρ ὅσα ἂν ἕτερόν τινα ἄρξαντά σου ποιεῖν ἐθελήσῃς, ταῦτα αὐτὸς αὐτεπάγγελτος πράσσῃς, οὔτε τι ἁμαρτήσῃ καὶ πάντα κατορθώσεις, κἀκ τούτου καὶ ἥδιστα καὶ

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.