ἦρξεν (erxen)

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

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

Found 82 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.55.1: ὅτι δὲ πρεσβύτατος ὢν Ἱππίας ἦρξεν, εἰδὼς μὲν καὶ ἀκοῇ ἀκριβέστερον ἄλλων ἰσχυρίζομαι, γνοίη δ’ ἄν τις καὶ αὐτῷ τούτῳ· παῖδες γὰρ αὐτῷ μόνῳ φαίν …

Aeschines, Against Timarchus 106: … ὰ ὑμέτερα, ὅσων πώποτε κύριος γέγονεν. οὗτος γὰρ ταύτην τὴν ἡλικίαν ἔχων ἣν ὑμεῖς ὁρᾶτε, οὐκ ἔστιν ἥντινα οὐκ ἧρξεν ἀρχήν, οὐδεμίαν λαχὼν οὐδὲ χειροτονηθείς, ἀλλὰ πάσας παρὰ τοὺς νόμους πριάμενος. ὧν τὰς μὲν πλείστας παρήσω, …

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.