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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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Greek1: exousia 2: anarchos 3: kathêgeomai 4: archô 5: kratos
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archê, hê, (v. archô ) beginning, origin, neikeos a. Hom. Il. 22.116; pêmatos Hom. Od. 8.81; phonou au=Hom. Od. 21.4, etc.; opp. telos, Hdt. 7.51, etc.; opp. teleutê, Thgn.607, cf. Plat. Laws 715e, Hp.Morb.1.1; a. genesthai kakôn Hdt. 5.97; a. poiêsasthai tinos Thuc. 1.128, Andoc. 2.37, Isoc. 12.120, etc.; a. labein tinos Aeschin. 1.11; tas archas eilêphenai Plb.4.28.3; archên hupothesthai lay a foundation, Dem. 3.2, etc.; balesthai Plat. L. 326e (and Pass., archai beblêntai Pind. N. 1.8); archên archesthai tinos Plat. Tim. 36e; source of action, [ho anthrôpos] echei archên eleutheran Plot.3.3.4.

b. with Preps. in adverbial usages, ex archês from the beginning, from the first, from of old, Hom. Od. 1.188, Xenoph.10, etc.; houx a. philos Soph. OT 385; hê ex a. echthra Dem. 54.3; to ex a. Xen. Hunt. 12.6; but ploutein ex a. palin anew, afresh, Aristoph. Pl. 221; logon palin hôsper ex a. kinein Plat. Rep. 450a; ho ex a. logos the original argument, IDEM=Plat. Theaet. 177c, etc.; ta ex a. the principal sum, Aristot. Pol. 1280a30:--

  • also ap' a. Hes. Th. 425, Hdt. 2.104, Pind. P. 8.25, Aesch. Supp. 344, Plat. Theaet. 206d; kat' archas in the beginning, at first, Hdt. 3.153, au=Hdt. 7.5; autika kat' a. IDEM=Hdt. 8.94; to kat' a. Plat. Laws 798a, al.

    c. acc. archên, abs., to begin with, at first,     Hdt. 1.9, au=Hdt. 2.28, au=Hdt. 8.132; tên archên Andoc. 3.20: pl., tas archas Plb.16.22.8: freq. followed by a neg., not at all, archên mêde labôn Hdt. 3.39, cf. au=Hdt. 1.193, al.; a. de thêran ou prepei tamêchana Soph. Ant. 92; a. kluein an ouk . . eboulomên IDEM=Soph. Phil. 1239, cf. ti=Soph. El. 439, Philol.3, Antiph. 5.73, Plat. Gorg. 478c; sts. c. Art., touto ouk endekomai tên a. Hdt. 4.25; tên a. gar exên autôi mê graphein Dem. 23.93.

    2. first principle, element, first so used by Anaximander, acc. to Simp. in Ph.150.23, cf.     Aristot. Met. 983b11, etc.; Hêrakleitos tên a. einai phêsi psuchên IDEM=Arist. de An.405a25; of hulê and theos, opp. stoicheia, Placit.1.3.25; practical principle of conduct, tôn praxeôn tas archas kai tas hupotheseis Dem. 2.10; principles of knowledge, Aristot. Met. 995b8, al.

    3. end, corner, of a bandage, rope, sheet, etc.,     Hdt. 4.60, Hp.Off.9, Eur. Hipp. 762, Aen.Tact.18.14, Act.Ap.10.11; of a compound pulley, Hero Bel.84.14.

    4. Math., origin of a curve, tês helikos Archim.Spir. 11 ti=Archim. Def.2, etc.; xunon a. kai peras epi kuklou periphereias Heraclit. 103.

    5. branch of a river, LXX Ge.2.10 (pl.).

    6. sum, total, IB2=LXX Nu.1.2.

    7. vital organs of the body, Gal.1.318, al.

    II. first place or power, sovereignty (not in Hom.), Dios archa     Pind. O. 2.64, cf. Hdt. 1.6, etc.; genesthai ep' archês Aristot. Pol. 1284b2: metaph., megalên mentan a. eiês heurêkôs, of a stroke of fortune, Dem. 21.196: pl., archai polissonomoi Aesch. Lib. 864 (lyr.); tas emas archas sebôn Soph. Ant. 744, etc.: c. gen. rei, têsd' echôn archên chthonos Soph. OT 737; a. tôn neôn, tês thalassês, power over them, Thuc. 3.90, Ps. Xen. Const. Ath. 2.7, etc.: prov., a. andra deixei Biasap.Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1130a1, cf. Dem. Ex. 48; method of government, oude tên allên a. epachthês Thuc. 6.54.

    III. = eidos melissês akentrou, Hsch.