ἄρξαντας (arxantas)

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

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Xenophon, Anabasis 5.7.34: ἐκ τούτου ἀνιστάμενοι πάντες ἔλεγον τοὺς μὲν τούτων ἄρξαντας δοῦναι δίκην, τοῦ δὲ λοιποῦ μηκέτι ἐξεῖναι ἀνομίας ἄρξαι· ἐὰν δέ τις ἄρξῃ, ἄγεσθαι αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ θανάτῳ· τοὺς δὲ …

Appianus of Alexandria, Civil Wars 4.2.9: … καιροφυλακήσοντας, οὐδʼ αὖ βραδύνειν διὰ τούσδε ἐν ἐπείξει τοσῇδε μᾶλλον ἢ ἐκποδὼν αὐτοὺς ἀθρόως ποιήσασθαι, ἄρξαντάς γε τοῦ καθʼ ἡμῶν πολέμου, ὅτε πολεμίους ἡμᾶς τε καὶ τοὺς ὑφʼ ἡμῖν στρατοὺς ἐψηφίζοντο εἶναι.

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.