ἤρξαντο (erxanto)

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

Found 164 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.5.1: οἱ γὰρ Ἕλληνες τὸ πάλαι καὶ τῶν βαρβάρων οἵ τε ἐν τῇ ἠπείρῳ παραθαλάσσιοι καὶ ὅσοι νήσους εἶχον, ἐπειδὴ ἤρξαντο μᾶλλον περαιοῦσθαι ναυσὶν ἐπ’ ἀλλήλους, ἐτράποντο πρὸς λῃστείαν, ἡγουμένων ἀνδρῶν οὐ τῶν ἀδυνατωτάτων κέρδους …

Plutarch, Aristides 7.3: ἐπεὶ δʼ ἤρξαντό τινες ἀνθρώπους ἀγεννεῖς καὶ πονηροὺς ὑποβάλλειν τῷ πράγματι, τελευταῖον ἁπάντων Ὑπέρβολον ἐξοστρακίσαντες ἐπ …

Aesop, Fables 291b: … ας ἀρχηγέτας τε καὶ στρατηγοὺς τῶν ἄλλων. Καὶ δὴ ἔνοπλοι ἅπαντες γεγονότες, καὶ παρατάξεις αὖθις πεποιηκότες, ἢρξαντο κρότων τῶν τοῦ πολέμου. Τῶν γὰρ αὐτῶν σαλπίγγων σαλπισασῶν ἐναπήρξαντο πολεμεῖν πρὸς τὰς γαλέας· αἵ κατὰ κράτ …

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.