ἄρχονται (archontai)

ἄρχονται is an Ancient Greek form of ἄρχω, meaning “to begin; to rule, lead”. It is the 3rd person plural present middle/passive indicative.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.62: … νομίς· τετάρτην Θεαίτητος Εὐθύφρων Ἀπολογία· πέμπτην Κρίτων Φαίδων Ἐπιστολαί. τὰ δʼ ἄλλα καθʼ ἓν καὶ ἀτάκτως. ἄρχονται δὲ οἱ μέν, ὡς προείρηται, ἀπὸ τῆς Πολιτείας· οἱ δʼ ἀπὸ Ἀλκιβιάδου τοῦ μείζονος· οἱ δʼ ἀπὸ Θεάγους· ἔνιοι δὲ Ε …

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.