χρήσῐμ-ος, η, ον,
also ος, ον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.8.8, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 480b, “R.” 333b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: (χράμαι):— useful, serviceable, first in [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 406; εἰς ἀνάγκαν, ἔνθ᾽ οὐ ποδὶ χρησίμῳ χρῆται 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 878 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 6th c.BC+]; τὸ χ. φρενῶν the excellence of.., [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1740 (Lyric poetry); τὸ αὐτίκα χ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.56; ἡ διὰ τὸ χ. φιλία 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1159b13; τὰ χ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 579 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χ. εἴς τι useful for something, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.109, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 493 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “R.” ] Refs 5th c.BC+][same place]; ἐπί τι [[[prev. author] “Grg.” [same place]; πρός τι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 482 (_comparative_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἰδίᾳ ἑκάστῳ χ. καὶ ὑπὲρ τοῦ κοινοῦ ὠφέλιμα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.34; τοῦτ᾽ οὖν τί ἐστι χρήσιμο; 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 202 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χρήσιμόν ἐστι, with infinitive, [[ [prev. author] “Av.” 382 (troch.). ] Refs]
__2 of persons, serviceable, useful, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 410, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.7, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; comparative -ώτερος[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 819c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: especially, like{χρηστός}, a good and useful citizen, χ. πόλει [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 910; χ. πολίτης 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 118; χ. τινι 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator “fragment” 16.1; ἐπί τι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.31 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοὺς εὐπόρους δεῖ χ. αὑτοὺς παρέχειν τοῖς πολίταις to show themselves useful, serviceable to the state, [[ [prev. author] 42.22, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 887, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator “fragment” 10.1 (_comparative_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῖς σώμασι -ώτεροι more able-bodied, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 5.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἀργαλέος τὴν ὄψιν, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.61. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]