ἦρχεν (erchen)

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

Found 141 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.704: Βιστονίῃ φόρμιγγι λιγείης ἦρχεν ἀοιδῆς·

Plato, Republic 4.442: … ἡδονῶν τὸ ὑπὸ τῶν λόγων παραγγελθὲν δεινόν τε καὶ μή. ὀρθῶς γʼ, ἔφη. σοφὸν δέ γε ἐκείνῳ τῷ σμικρῷ μέρει, τῷ ὃ ἦρχέν τʼ ἐν αὐτῷ καὶ ταῦτα παρήγγελλεν, ἔχον αὖ κἀκεῖνο ἐπιστήμην ἐν αὑτῷ τὴν τοῦ συμφέροντος ἑκάστῳ τε καὶ ὅλῳ τῷ …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 5.12: … ἀξιῶν μὴ κωλῦσαι τὰς εἰς τὸν εὐεργέτην αὐτοῦ χάριτας. ἦν δὲ οὐχ ὑπὲρ Ὑρκανοῦ ἡ σπουδή, ἀλλ’ ὅτι μὴ κατ’ ἀξίαν ἠρχεν, ἐδεδοίκει τὰς ἐξ εὐλόγων μεταβολάς, ἔσπευδεν ἢ ἐκποδὼν θέσθαι τὸν Ὑρκανόν, ἡ τέως ἐν χερσὶν ἔχειν. ἐνδεδωκότ …

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.