ἦρχε (erche)

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

Found 257 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1178: δὴ τότ ἄρʼ Αἰσονίδης μετεφώνεεν, ἦρχέ τε μύθων·

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.9.2: … τῶν Ἡρακλειδῶν καὶ ἅμα δυνατὸν δοκοῦντα εἶναι καὶ τὸ πλῆθος τεθεραπευκότα τῶν Μυκηναίων τε καὶ ὅσων Εὐρυσθεὺς ἦρχε τὴν βασιλείαν Ἀτρέα παραλαβεῖν, καὶ τῶν Περσειδῶν τοὺς Πελοπίδας μείζους καταστῆναι.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 48.22.3: … ἐστράτευτο· πολλοὶ γὰρ καὶ τῶν τοιούτων ἐς τὸ βουλευτήριον, ὥσπερ εἴρηταί μοι, κατελελέχατο· καὶ κακῶς αὐτῶν ἦρχἐ προσηταιρίσατο.

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.