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|auten=reg. in [[act]]. and [[mid]]., [[but]] [[without]] perf., and [[without]] [[pass]].: I. [[act]]., [[lead]] [[off]], [[begin]] ([[for]] others to [[follow]]), [[lead]], [[command]]; τοῖς [[ἄρα]] μύθων ἦρχε, ‘[[was]] the [[first]]’ to [[speak]]; ἦρχ' ἀγορεύειν, ἦρχε δ ὁδοῖο, ‘[[lead]] the [[way]],’ Od. 5.237; πάντες [[ἅμα]], [[Ζεὺς]] δ' ἦρχε, ‘headed by [[Zeus]],’ Il. 1.495; in the [[sense]] of ‘[[commanding]],’ foll. by dat., ἦρχε δ' [[ἄρα]] [[σφιν]] | [[Ἕκτωρ]], Il. 16.552, etc.; [[with]] [[part]]., ἐγὼ δ' ἦρχον χαλεπαίνων, ‘[[was]] the [[first]] to [[offend]],’ ‘began the [[quarrel]],’ Il. 2.378, Il. 3.447, [[different]] [[from]] the inf.— II. [[mid]]., [[begin]] [[something]] [[that]] [[one]] is [[himself]] to [[continue]]; ἤρχετο μύθων, began ‘his’ or ‘her’ [[speaking]]; ἤρχετο μῆτιν ὑφαίνειν, etc.; ἔκ τινος ἄρχεσθαι, [[make]] a [[beginning]] ‘[[with]]’ [[something]], or ‘at’ [[some]] [[point]], [[sometimes]] gen. [[without]] a prep., [[σέο]] δ' ἄρξομαι, Ι, Od. 21.142; of [[ritual]] [[observance]] ([[beginning]] a [[sacrifice]]), πάντων ἀρχόμενος μελέων, Od. 14.428 (cf. [[ἀπάρχομαι]]).