ἀρχηγός,
Doric dialect ἀρχᾱγός, όν, beginning, originating, λόγος ἀρχηγὸς κακῶν[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 881] Refs 5th c.BC+]; primary, leading, chief, Τροίας ἀ. τιμάς[[ [prev. author] “Tr.” 196 (Lyric poetry); δύο φλέβες ἀ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 666b25. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II as substantive, founder, of a tutelary hero, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 60] Refs 5th c.BC+]; as feminine, ancestral heroine, [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 8.51; τοῦ γένους 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.28, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 5.56; τῆς πόλεως θεὸς ἀ. τίς ἐστιν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 21e] Refs 5th c.BC+]; founder of a family, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1162a4. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.2 prince, chief, Δία ἀ. θεῶν[[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 5.179, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 259] Refs 5th c.BC+]; chief captain, leader, Ἑλλάνων[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 138; Βεβρύκων 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.110; ἀ. ἱερέων “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 6798 (from Dijon), compare 2882 (Milet.). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.3 first cause, originator, κοπίδων[[ 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 81; πράγματος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.3.4, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 3.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.101; συγχύσεως “SIG” 684.8 (Dyme, 2nd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φόνου[[ “POxy.” 1241 iii 35; σωτηρίας NT.Heb.2.10; Θαλῆς ὁ τῆς τοιαύτης ἀ. φιλοσοφίας 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 983b20; τῆς τέχνης 3rd c.BC(?): Sosipater Comicus 1.14; τὸ ἀ. ] NT+4th c.BC+]the originating power, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 401d, compare “Sph.” 243d] Refs 5th c.BC+]; primary, fundamental, ἀρχηγὸν ἡ φωνή[[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 2.19.] Refs 1st c.BC+]