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ἠρξάμην (erxamen)

ἠρξάμην is an Ancient Greek form of ἄρχω, meaning “to begin; to rule, lead”. It is the 1st person singular aorist middle indicative.

It can also be a form of ἔρδω, “do, make, perform”.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Hippolytus 87: τέλος δὲ κάμψαιμ’ ὥσπερ ἠρξάμην βίου.

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.