χρῆμα, ατος, τό:
(χράομαι):— need, in the phrase παρὰ χ. or παραχρῆμα (which see); a thing that one needs or uses,[[compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 1.9f (_plural_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence in plural, goods, property (χρήματα λέγομεν πάντα ὅσων ἡ ἀξία νομίσματι μετρεῖται [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1119b26), 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.78, 203, +others (never in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”), 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 320, 407, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of temple-treasures, heirlooms, etc., [[ “Mnemos.” 57.208 (Argos, 6th c.BC)] Refs 6th c.BC+]; τὰ ἱρὰ χ. τῆς Ἀθηναίης [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.28, compare 9.81; θησαυρούς.. ἄλλα τε χρύσεα ἄφατα χ. [prev. author] 7.190; πολλῶν χ. ἐξαίρετον ἄνθος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 954; πειρῶ τὸν πλοῦτον χρήματακαὶ κτήματα κατασκευάζειν· ἔστι δὲ χ. μὲν τοῖς ἀπολαύειν ἐπισταμένοις, κ. δὲ τοῖς κτᾶσθαι δυναμένοις 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.28; τοῖς σκεύεσι καὶ τοῖς χρήμασιν ἀποθήκη 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.97 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρόβατα καὶ ἄλλα χ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.2.4; τὰ ἀνδράποδα.. καὶ χρήματα τὰ πλεῖστα ἀπέδρα αὐτούς [prev. work] 7.8.12: proverbial, χρήματα ψυχὴ πέλεται.. βροτοῖσι] Refs 5th c.BC+] a man's money is his life, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 686 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; χρήματ᾽ ἄνηρ 'money makes the man', [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 49, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 2.11; ἐν χρήμασιν οἰκεῖ πατρώοις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 757, compare “Ch.” 135; also χρημάτων πένητες 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 37; τὰ χρήματ᾽ ἐνεχυράζομαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 241; χρήματα πορίζειν [prev. author] “Ec.” 236; ἄτιμοι ἦσαν τὰ σώματα, τὰ δὲ χ. εἶχον 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.74; χρημάτων ἥσσων 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 50; χρημάτων κρείσσων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.60; χρήμασι νικώμενος [prev. passage]; χρημάτων ἀδωρότατος [prev. work] 65; ἐλπίδα χρήμασιν ὠνητήν [prev. author] 3.40; μήτε χρημάτων φειδομένους μήτε πόνων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 78a; ζημιοῦσθαι χρήμασιν [prev. author] “Lg.” 721b ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; even of debts, διαλῦσαι τὰ χ. [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.12; δεθέντ᾽ ἐπὶ χρήμασιν ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ [prev. author] 24.168.—Acc. to 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 9.87 the _Ionic dialect_ used also the _sing._ in this sense, and so we find, ἐπὶ κόσῳ ἂν χρήματι.. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; for how much money.. ? Answ. ἐπ᾽ οὐδενί, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.38; ταύτην (i.e. τὴν χλανίδα) πωλέω μὲν οὐδενὸς χ. δίδωμι δὲ ἄλλως [prev. work] 139 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also in [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 197 ] Refs 6th c.BC+], χ. δ᾽ ὃ μὲν Διόθεν καὶ σὺν δίκῃ ἀνδρὶ γένητα; in Attic dialect, οὐδενὸς ἂν χ. δεξάμενοι at no price, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; and in later Prose, fund, sum of money, Arch. f. Religionswiss.[[ 10.211 (Cos, 2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τὸ πλῆθος τοῦ χ. [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 13.106, cf. NT.Act.4.37, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 1.20; χρήματα ] NT+1st c.BC+]merchandise, [[ 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 90, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.6.37, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.74 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; property, substance, [[ Berl.Sitzb. 1927.161 (from Cyrene). ] Refs]