ἄρχετε (archete)

ἄρχετε is an Ancient Greek form of ἄρχω, meaning “to begin; to rule, lead”. It is the 2nd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 53 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 10.1.12: ἄνθρωποι, μοχθεῖτε τὰ χείρονα, καὶ διὰ κέρδος ἄπληστοι νεικέων ἄρχετε καὶ πολέμων· τᾶς φύσιος δʼ ὁ πλοῦτος ὅρον τινὰ βαιὸν ἐπίσχει, αἱ δὲ κεναὶ κρίσιες τὰν ἀπέραντον ὁδόν. τοῦτο Ν …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 1.64: Ἄρχετε βουκολικᾶς Μοῖσαι φίλαι ἄρχετʼ ἀοιδᾶς.

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.