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|Definition=ή, όν, ([[ἀρχή]]) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[of rule]] or [[for rule]], [[royal]], [[πυθμήν]] <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>260</span>; γένος <span class="bibl">Th.2.80</span>; [[official]], [[δικαστήριον]] Chor. in <span class="title">Rev.Phil.</span>1.219: neut. pl. [[ἀρχικά]] as [[substantive]], perhaps [[presents demanded by officials on entering office]], PTeb. 3.57<span class="hiitalic">A</span>22. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> of persons, [[fit for rule]], [[fit for command]], or [[fit for office]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Prt.</span> 352b</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Isoc.2.24</span>; [[having served as magistrates]], <span class="title">CIG</span>2774 (Aphrodisias): c. gen., ἀνθρώπων <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>1.1.16</span>; νεώς <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>488d</span>; φύσει ἀρχικὸν πατὴρ υἱῶν <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1161a18</span>; ἔστιν ἀρχικώτατα τῶν γενῶν Σκύθαι καὶ Θρᾷκες καὶ Πέρσαι <span class="bibl">Isoc.4.67</span>. Adv. [[ἀρχικῶς]], ἔχοντες <span class="bibl">Lib.<span class="title">Or.</span>11.148</span>; [[ἱερατικῶς]] καὶ ἀ. φυλαττόμενα <span class="bibl">Just.<span class="title">Nov.</span>58</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[dominant]], [[sovereign]], <b class="b3">ἡ ἀρχικωτάτη ἐπιστήμη</b> the [[sovereign]] [[science]], i.e. [[σοφία]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Metaph.</span>982b4</span>; τὴν ἀ. χώραν ἔχειν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">PA</span>665b18</span>; <b class="b3">ἀ. ἀρετή</b>, opp. [[ὑπηρετική]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1260a23</span>:—Math., [[principal]], <b class="b3">ἀ. συμπτώματα</b>, of the properties of a [[curve]], <span class="bibl">Apollon.Perg.<span class="title">Con.</span>1</span> <span class="title">Praef.</span>; <b class="b3">ἀ. διάμετροι</b> [[principal]] [[diameter]]s, ib.<span class="bibl">1.51</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[belonging to]] ἀρχαί <span class="bibl">11.6</span>, <span class="bibl">Dam.<span class="title">Pr.</span> 130</span>,<span class="bibl">344</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[primal]], [[original]], γένεσις Phld.<span class="title">D.</span>3.14; ἀρχικκώτατον [[αἴτιον]] <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">M.</span>9.5</span>. Adv. [[ἀρχικῶς]] = [[originally]], [[principally]], [[primarily]], [[fundamentally]], [[authoritatively]] ib.<span class="bibl">1.46</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">ἀ. σχῆμα ποιήσεως</b> in which the [[poet]] [[commence]]s with an [[invocation]] of the Muses, Zeus, etc., Anon.<span class="title">Fig.</span>p.149S.</span>