ἄρχοντι (archonti)

ἄρχοντι is an Ancient Greek form of ἄρχω, meaning “to begin; to rule, lead”.

It can also be a form of ἄρχων, “ruler, magistrate”. It is the dative singular masculine noun.

Found 160 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.69.3: … ξυνέβησαν τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις ῥητοῦ μὲν ἕκαστον ἀργυρίου ἀπολυθῆναι ὅπλα παραδόντας, τοῖς δὲ Λακεδαιμονίοις, τῷ τε ἄρχοντι καὶ εἴ τις ἄλλος ἐνῆν, χρῆσθαι Ἀθηναίους ὅτι ἂν βούλωνται.

Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 674: ἄρχοντί τʼ ἄρχων καὶ κασιγνήτῳ κάσις,

Aesop, Fables 414: … δη ἀνθρώπους ἔρχεται· καὶ ὅτι ἅπαντες ἀνέμων ἢ πολλοῦ ἐξ ὄμβρων ὕδατος ἔχουσι φροντίδα οὐκέτι. μἄγώ δʼ“ ἔφη “ ἂρχοντι καὶ αὐτοδεσπότῃ ἔοικα, καὶ οὐδὲ εἰς οὐρανὸν, ἀλλὰ κάτω που καὶ εἰς τὴν γῆν ἐπιτάττω βλέπειν, καὶ δεδιέναι 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.