ἀρχηγέτης: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἀρχηγέτου, ὁ, fem. [[ἀρχηγέτις]], ιδος (dat.<br><span class="bld">A</span> ἀρχηγέτι Ar.''Lys.''644); Dor. [[ἀρχαγέτας]]: ([[ἡγέομαι]]):—[[first]] [[leader]], [[author]], esp. [[founder]] of a [[city]] or [[family]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]9.86, Pi.''O.''7.78, ''IG''9(1).61.49 (Daulis); title of [[Apollo]] at [[Cyrene]], Pi.''P.''5.60; at Naxos in Sicily, Th.6.3; of [[Heracles]] at [[Sparta]], X.''HG''6.3.6; [[Asclepius]] in [[Phocis]], Paus.10.32.12; [[Helios]] at [[Rhodes]], Aristid.''Or.'' 24(44).50; freq. of [[ἥρωες]], ''IG''2.1191, ''SIG''1024.40 (Myconos), etc.; so at [[Athens]] of <b class="b3">ἥρωες ἐπώνυμοι</b>, Ar.''Fr.''126, Orac. ap. D.43.66; <b class="b3">ὁ δήμου ἀρχηγέτης</b> the [[tutelary]] [[hero]] of the [[deme]], Pl.''Ly.''205d; at Sparta of the kings, [[ῥήτρα]] ap. Plu.''Lyc.''6; so at Thera, ''IG''12(3).762; fem. [[ἀρχηγέτις]], of [[Athena]], ''IG''3.65, al., cf. ''BMus.Inscr.''481*.20 (Ephesus, ii A. D.); [[τἀρχηγέτι]], = [[τῇ ἀρχηγέτιδι]], Ar.''Lys.''644.<br><span class="bld">2</span> generally, [[leader]], [[chief]], A.''Supp.''184,251, S.''OT''751, etc.; later, [[governor]], Chor. in ''Rev.Phil.''1.67: metaph., ἀρχηγέτης φιλοσοφίας Jul.''Or.''6.188b; of a [[philosophical]] [[school]], τῆς ἀγωγῆς Phld.''Sto.Herc.''339.12.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[first cause]], [[author]], τύχης E.''El.''891; γένους Id.''Or.''555.