χρή,
impersonal, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.216, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect χρῆ [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 20, 35, 46 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; other forms are contractions (crases) of χρή (probably originally a neuter substantive) with forms of εἰμί (sum): future χρἤσται [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 504, “fragment” 599, 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 103, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 362, 5th c.BC: Phrynichus Comicus 34 (on this form, for which codices generally have χρῆσται or χρῆσθαι, see Scholia 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “OC” [same place])] Refs 5th c.BC+]: subjunctive χρῇ [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 999, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 49, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 133; _optative_ χρείη 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 215, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 162, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.44, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 4c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; infinitive χρῆναι [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 276, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 210, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.84, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also χρῆν (see. below 111); participle neuter plural χρηεόντα (or χρὴ ἐόντα) [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 174 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]: imperfect ἐχρῆν [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.44, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 907, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 107.6 (only here in 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, χρῆν l. 5), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 152, +others, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.114, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.22, +others, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.57, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 335c, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.3, +others, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: frequently also without the augment, χρῆν [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 123.1, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 529, 579, “Tr.” 1133, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 535 (_anapaest meter_), +others, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 8.6, +others, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.63, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 15.33, +others, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; both forms in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 540, ἐρεῖ τις, οὐ χρῆν· ἀλλὰ τί ἐχρῆν εἴπατε] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future χρήδει [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: —it is necessary: with infinitive praes. aut aorist, it must needs, one must or ought to do (like δεῖ, which is only once used in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus), νῦν δὲ χ. τετλάμεν ἔμπης 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.209; τὸν νῦν χ. κομέειν 6.207, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.216, 4.57, etc.; σήμαιν᾽ ὅ τι χ. σοι συμπράσσειν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 297 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅτι χ. πάσχειν ἐθέλω[[ [prev. work] 1067; ὅ τι χρείη ποιεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 4c, compare 9a; τούτου θανειν χρῆν αὐτὸν οὕνεκ᾽ ἐκ σέθε; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 579; χρὴ τὸ λέγειν 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 6.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: more frequently with accusative person et infinitive, one must, ἐμὲ δὲ χ. γήραϊ πείθεσθαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.644; τῷ σε χ. πόλεμον.. παῦσαι 7.331 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐδέ τί σε χ. νηλεὲς ἦτορ ἔχειν [[ 9.496; τί χ. με.. στέγειν ἢ τί λέγει; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 135 (Lyric poetry): χρῆν γὰρ Κανδαύλῃ γενέσθαι κακῶς (where γενέσθαι is _infinitive_ of an _impersonal_ verb) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.8.] Refs 5th c.BC+]—Sts. the infinitive must be supplied from the context, especially in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus in phrases like{τίπτε μάχης. ἀποπαύεα; οὐδέ τί σε χρή}] Refs 8th c.BC+] (i.e. ἀποπαύεσθαι) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.721, compare 19.420 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅθι χ. πεζὸν ἐόντα (i.e. μάρνασθαι) [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.50 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; so in Trag. and Attic dialect, πορθεῖν ἃ μὴ χ. (i.e. πορθεῖν) [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 342 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; φύς τ᾽ ἀφ᾽ ὧν οὐ χρῆν (i.e. φῦναι), ξὺν οἷς τ᾽ οὐ χρῆν (i.e. ὁμιλεῖν) ὁμιλῶν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1184 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔκανες ὃν οὐ χρῆν (i.e. κτεῖναι) [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 930 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐπιπλεύσειέ τις ὡς χ. (i.e. ἐπιπλεῦσαι) [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.89 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θύσαντες οἷς χ. (i.e. θῦσαι) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 415e; ἀκαιρότερον ὄντα ἢ χ. [prev. author] “Plt.” 307e; λαλεῖν μετὰ ἀφελείας ἔνθα χ. 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 34.2.; so ὡς χ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1556 (_anapaest meter_), etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+] —The imperfect frequently expresses something that ought to have been, but is not, ἐνθάδ᾽ οὐ παραστατεῖ, ὡς χρῆν, Ὀρέστης[[ [prev. work] 879, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1133; and sometimes stands for χρή, χρῆν τι λέγειν ὑμᾶς σοφὸν ῳ νικήσετε 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 487 (_anapaest meter_), compare 432: _absolutely_, ἐρεῖτις, οὐ χρῆν· ἀλλὰτί ἐχρῆν εἴπατε [prev. author] “Ach.” 540. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]