ἀρχικός

English (LSJ)

ή, όν, (ἀρχή)

   A of or for rule, royal, πυθμήν A.Ch.260; γένος Th.2.80; official, δικαστήριον Chor. in Rev.Phil.1.219: neut. pl. ἀρχικά as Subst., perh. presents demanded by officials on entering office, PTeb. 3.57A22.    2 of persons, fit for rule, command, or office, Pl.Prt. 352b, al., Isoc.2.24; having served as magistrates, CIG2774 (Aphrodisias): c. gen., ἀνθρώπων X.Mem.1.1.16; νεώς Pl.R.488d; φύσει ἀρχικὸν πατὴρ υἱῶν Arist.EN1161a18; ἔστιν -κώτατα τῶν γενῶν Σκύθαι καὶ Θρᾷκες καὶ Πέρσαι Isoc.4.67. Adv. -κῶς, ἔχοντες Lib.Or.11.148; ἱερατικῶς καὶ ἀ. φυλαττόμενα Just.Nov.58.    3 dominant, sovereign, ἡ ἀρχικωτάτη ἐπιστήμη the sovereign science, i.e. σοφία, Arist.Metaph.982b4; τὴν ἀ. χώραν ἔχειν Id.PA665b18; ἀ. ἀρετή, opp. ὑπηρετική, Id.Pol.1260a23:—Math., principal, ἀ. συμπτώματα, of the properties of a curve, Apollon.Perg.Con.1 Praef.; ἀ. διάμετροι principal diameters, ib.1.51.    II belonging to ἀρχαί 11.6, Dam.Pr. 130,344.    III primal, original, γένεσις Phld.D.3.14; -κώτατον αἴτιον S.E.M.9.5. Adv. -κῶς ib.1.46.    2 ἀ. σχῆμα ποιήσεως in which the poet commences with an invocation of the Muses, Zeus, etc., Anon.Fig.p.149S.

German (Pape)

[Seite 366] zum Herrschen, zur Herrschaft geeignet, gehörig, ἀνήρ Plat. Phaedr. 248 d; καὶ ἡγεμονικός Prot. 352 b; gleich ἱκανὸς ἄρχειν Xen. Mem. 1, 1, 7; vgl. An. 2, 6, 8 ff; πυθμήν, der Herrscherstamm, Aesch. Ch. 258; γένος, Herrschergeschlecht oder der zu den Aemtern befähigte Stand. Thuc. 2, 80; Plat. Rep. IV, 444 b; vgl. Isocr. 2, 24; – τὸ ἀρχικόν, Herrschertalent, Dion. Hal. 5, 71. – Auch herrschsüchtig, Isocr. 4, 67. – Adv. ἀρχικῶς, Sext. Emp.