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__B[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus ] Refs 4th c.BC+] FORMS: contraction χρῇ [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 35 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], Ionic dialect χρᾷ [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.62 (also 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 3.2)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; infinitive χρᾶν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.135 (also 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 19)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect participle χρέων [[ “hymnus ad Apollinem” 253, _feminine_ χρέωσα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.111 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect χρείων [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.79, “hymnus ad Apollinem” 396 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: imperfect ἔχραον [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.92 (variant{ἔχρεον}), 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.454 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. singular ἔχρη [[ 7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 3.3, 4th-3rd c.BC: Hermesianax Elegiacus 7.89, (ἐξ-) 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 87 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]: future χρήσω [[ “hymnus ad Apollinem” 132, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.19, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1083 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἔχρησα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.156, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, aorist ἐχρήσθην [[ [prev. author] 1.49 ] Refs], etc.: perfect κέχρησμαι (variant{κέχρημαι}) [[ [prev. author] 4.164, 7.141 ] Refs]: pluperfect ἐκέχρηστο (variant{ἐκέχρητο}) [[ [prev. author] 2.147, 151, 3.64, etc.] Refs]:—middle, χρῶμαι [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.126, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+], Ionic dialect χρέομαι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+], infinitive χρέεσθαι [[ 1.157 (χρᾶσθαι [prev. work] 172)] Refs]; participle χρεώμενος [[ 4.151: ] Refs]imperfect 3rd.pers. plural ἐχρέωντο (variant{ἐχρέοντο}) [[ 4.157, 5.82 ] Refs]: future χρήσομαι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.492, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.I in active of the gods and their oracles, proclaim, absolutely, χρείων μυθήσατο Φοῖβος [[ 8.79: χρείων ἐκ δάφνης γυάλων ὕπο Παρνησοῖο “hymnus ad Apollinem” 396: with _accusative_ _of things_, χρήσω ἀνθρώποισι Διὸς βουλήν [prev. work] 132, compare 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 807, Pi.[same place], 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 2.9.9; ἡ Πυθίη οἱ χρᾷ τάδε 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.55, compare 4.155 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; χρῆσεν οἰκιστῆρα Βάττον proclaimed him the colonizer, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also in Trag., ὁ χρήσας [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 798; χρήσειν ἔοικεν ἀμφὶ τῶν αὑτῆς κακῶν [prev. author] “Ag.” 1083; χρῇ μοι τοιαῦθ᾽ ὁ Φοῖβος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 35; σοὶ δ᾽ οὐκ ἔχρησεν οὐδέν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1268; χ. φόνον [prev. author] “El.” 1267: also with _accusative_ _cognate_, χ. χρησμόν [prev. author] “Ph.” 409; ὑμνῳδίαν [prev. author] “Ion” 681 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with infinitive, warn or direct by oracle, ἔχρησας ὥστε τὸν ξένον μητροκτονεῖν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 202; without ὥστε, [prev. work] 203 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; χρήσαντ᾽ ἐμοὶ.. ἐκτὸς αἰτίας κακῆς εἶναι that I should be.., [[ [prev. author] “Ch.” 1030 ] Refs]; with infinitive aorist, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 159 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: rare in Attic dialect Prose, τάδε ὁ Ἀπόλλων ἔχρησεν [[ “IG” 12.80.10; τὸν Ἀπόλλω ταύτην τὴν γῆν χρῆσαι οἰκεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.102; τοῦ θεοῦ χρήσαντος [prev. author] 5.32, compare 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 99; ἔχρησεν ὁ θεός “SIG” 1044.5 (Halic., 4th-3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ θεὸς ἔχρησε [[ “IG” 42(1).122.78 (Epid., 4th c.BC). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.II passive, to be declared, proclaimed by an oracle, τίς οὖν ἐχρήσθ; [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 792 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; mostly of the oracle delivered, τὰ ἐκ Δελφῶν οὕτω τῷ Κροίσῳ ἐχρήσθη [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.49; τὰ χρηστήρια ταῦτά σφι ἐχρήσθη [prev. author] 9.94; ἠπίως χρησθῆναι [prev. author] 7.143 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ χρησθέν, τὰ χρησθέντα, the response, [[ [prev. author] 1.63, 7.178; ἐν Πυθῶνι χρησθὲν παλαίφατον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.39; πεύθου τὰ χρησθέντ᾽ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 604 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χρησθὲν αὐτῷ ἐν Νεμέᾳ τοῦτο παθεῖν since it was foretold him by an oracle that.. [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.96 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἃ τοῦδ᾽ ἐχρήσθη σώματος which were declared about it, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 355; τὸν κεχρησμένον θάνατον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.164 (-χρημ- codices)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῦ κακοῦ τοῦ κεχρησμένου [[ [prev. author] 7.141 (variant{-χρημ-}): _impersonal_, with ] Refs]infinitive, καί σφι ἐχρήσθη ἀνέμοισι εὔχεσθαι[[ [prev. work] 178 ] Refs]: with accusative et infinitive, ἐκέχρηστό σφι.. τοῦτον βασιλεύσειν [[ [prev. author] 2.147 ] Refs]; with infinitive aorist, [[ [prev. author] 7.220. ] Refs]
__B.III middle, of the person to whom the response is given, consult a god or oracle, with dative, ψυχῇ χρησόμενος Θηβαίου Τειρεσίαο [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.492, 565 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; χ. θεῷ, χρηστηρίοισι, μαντηΐῳ, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.47, 53, 157; τῷ θεῷ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.124; χ. μάντεσι Μούσαις 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 724 (_anapaest meter_), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 686a; ὅσοι μαντικὴν νομίζοντες οἰωνοῖς χρῶνται 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χ. χρηστηρίῳ εἰ.. inquire at the oracle whether.., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.57: _absolutely_, ὑπέρβη λάϊνον οὐδὸν χρησόμενος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.81, compare “hymnus ad Apollinem” 252, 292; ἀπέστειλε ἄλλους χρησομένους 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.46 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οἱ χρώμενοι the consulters, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 957; χρωμένῳ ἐν Δελφοῖς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.126; also χ. περὶ τοῦ πολέμου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.220, compare 1.85, 4.150, 155, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κεχρημένος having inquired of an oracle, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1398b33: with ] Refs 4th c.BC+]infinitive, σωφρονεῖν κεχρημένον being divinely warned to be temperate, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 829, compare 4th c.AD(?): Marcellinus Biographus “Vita Thucydidis” 6 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: later simply, receive a divine revelation, [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.3.14.— 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] has the word in this sense only in [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”: the ] Refs 8th c.BC+]active only in present participle χρείων (future χρήσω [[ “hymnus ad Apollinem” 132): the ] Refs]middle only in participle future χρησόμενος.
__B furnish with a thing, in which sense the present was κίχρημι, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 53.12, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 29 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; Cretan dialect 3rd.pers. singular κίγχρητι [[ “Inscription Cretan dialect” 1 xxiii 3 (Phaestus, 2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; Delph. 3rd.pers. singular present subjunctive κιχρῇ [[ “Schwyzer” 324.17 (4th c.BC): ] Refs 4th c.BC+]aorist χρέη[[ [prev. work]13] Refs]; present participle κιχρέντε [[[prev. work]adn. (rarely ] Refs]χρηννύναι, χρηννύω, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 5.10, 10.13 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: middle, χρηννυόμεθα [[ “PCair.Zen.” 304.4 (3rd c.BC))] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: future χρήσω [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.58: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist ἔχρησα[[ [prev. passage], 6.89, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 219, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.11.18, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.24, “IG” 12.108.16, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+] (3rd.pers. singular written ἔκχρησεν [[ “IG” 12(3).1350.4 (from Thera))] Refs]; imperative χρῆσον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1159, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] Comedy texts 205: perfect κέχρηκα [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 461, 598, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 29.21.6 (= 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 31.10)] Refs 4th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐκεχρήκει [[ 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 2.29:] Refs 2nd c.AD+] —passive, perfect κέχρημαι (δια-) [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.11 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—middle, present κίχρᾰμαι [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.534b ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; infinitive κίχρασθαι [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 30.20 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: imperfect ἐκιχράμην[[ “Anthologia Graeca” 9.584.10] Refs]: aorist ἐχρησάμην, imperative χρῆσαι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 191 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.:—furnish the use of a thing, i.e. lend, usually in a friendly way, δανείζω being the word applied to usurers (but χ. ={δανείζω} in [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Sophista 54), [same places]; οὐ δεδωκώς, ἀλλὰ χρήσας 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1162b33, cf. LXX.Exo.11.3; ἡ πειρατικὴ δύναμις χρήσασα ταῖς βασιλικαῖς ὑπηρεσίαις ἑαυτήν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 24; χ. τὴν ἑαυτοῦ σχολήν τισι [prev. author] “Phil.” 13 ] LXX+5th c.BC+]; χ. τὰν χέρα, in the formula of manumission, [[ “IG” 9(1).189, 194 (from Tithora)] Refs]:—middle, borrow, τι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 191 (Lyric poetry), 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 30.20: _absolutely_, χρησαμένη γὰρ ἔνησα καὶ οὐκ ἔχω ἀνταποδοῦναι Batrachomyomachia 186 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόδας χρήσας, ὄμματα χρησάμενος having lent feet and borrowed eyes, of a blind man carrying a lame one, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 9.13 (Plato Junior Epigrammaticus), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Demodocus” 384b, 384c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II ={χρηματίζω}[[ 111, τοῦ χρέοντος γραμματέως “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 2562.18 (assuming variant, Hierapytna). ] Refs]
