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ἐξάρχ-ω ,
A.begin, take the lead in, initiate, c. gen., “Θέτις δ᾽ ἐξῆρχε γόοιο” Il.18.51; “μολπῆς ἐξάρχοντες” Od.4.19, Il.18.606; “ἐξῆρχον ἀοιδῆς Μοῦσαι” Hes.Sc.205; ἐξάρχετε φωνᾷ (sc. τῆς μολπῆς) Pi.N.2.25; “πτολέμω” Corinn.26; “ἐ. πετροβολίας” X.An.6.6.15; “παιᾶνος” Plu.Lyc.22; “δόγματος” Id.Galb.8, etc.:—Med., “κακῆς ἐξάρχετο βουλῆς” Od.12.339.
2. c. acc., “βουλὰς ἐξάρχων ἀγαθάς” Il.2.273; “χορούς” h.Hom.27.18; “ἐ. παιήονα” Archil.76; “ᾠδάν” Theoc.8.62; “παιᾶνα” X.Cyr.3.3.58 (so in Med., 4.1.6):—Med., ἐξάρχου κανᾶ (cf. ἐνάρχομαι) E.IA435: c. dupl. acc., εἰ δέ μ᾽ ῷδ᾽ ἀεὶ λόγους (v.l. λόγοις）“ ἐξῆρχες” S.El.557; “μολπὰν . . οἵαν ἐξῆρχον θεούς” E.Tr.152 (lyr.).
3. teach, “οἱ λόγων ἁπτόμενοι ἀσεβῶν ἄλλοις τε ἐξάρχοντες” Pl.Lg.891d; “ἐ. ὅρκον” dictate . ., E.IT743: also, = διδάσκω 111, “οἱ -οντες τὸν διθύραμβον” Arist.Po.1449a11.
4. hold office, Polem.Cyn.18; rule, c. gen., Eustr in EN2.32.
5. c. part., “ἐξάρχεσθαι ἀεθλεύων” A.R.1.362.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1449a.11
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