__b time in the abstract, ἀμερὴς χ. Timo 76; τριμερής [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 10.197, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.153b; defined by 4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.26, 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus [prev. work] 3.260. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 a definite time, period, δεκέτης, τρίμηνος, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 715 (Lyric poetry), “Tr.” 164 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χ. βίου, ἥβης χ., [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 670, “El.” 20; πολὺν ἀριθμὸν χρόνου γεγονότες 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.49: _plural_, of points or periods of time, τοῖς χ. ἀκριβῶς] Refs 5th c.BC+] with chronological accuracy, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.97 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῖς χ. by the dates, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 11.36 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μετενεγκόντα τοὺς χ. altering the dates, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.225; μακρῶν καὶ πολλῶν χρόνων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 798b; τεσσαράκοντα χρόνους ἐνιαυτῶν “IG” 5(1).728.7 (from Sparta), compare 14.1747.3 (from Rome)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χρόνων μῆκος (uncertain, to be read χρόνου) [[ 6th c.AD: Choricius Rhetor 35.51 p.403 F.-R. ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
__3.a accusative, χρόνον for a while, for a long or short time, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.599, 6.295, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.175, 7.223, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πολὺν χρόνον for a long time, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.161; δηρὸν χ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.206; οὐκ ὀλίγον χ. 19.157; τοῦτον τὸν χ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.75 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐς τὸν αἰὲν χ. for ever, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 207 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ πολὺς χ. ἐξ οὗ[[.. Pl.R. 452c; παλαιὸς ἀφ᾽ οὗ χρόνος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 600 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἦν χρόνος ἐν ᾧ.., or ὅτε.., Linusap.[[ 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius “Prooem.” 4, 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 25.1 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator; ἕνα χ. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]once for all, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.511. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3.b genitive, χρόνου περιιόντος as time came round, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.155 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so χ. ἐπιγενομένου, διεξελθόντος, προβαίνοντος, [[ [prev. author] 1.28, 2.52, 3.53 ] Refs]; χρόνου γενομένου after a time, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.109 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; ὀλίγου χρόνου in a short time, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.134; πολλοῦ.. οὐχ ἑόρακά πω χρόνου 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 98 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ μακροῦ χ., τοῦ λοιποῦ χ., [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 478 (Lyric poetry), 817; βαιοῦ κοὐχὶ μυρίου χ. [prev. author] “OC” 397; ποίου χρόνο; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 278 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόσου χ.; after how long? [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 83. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3.c dative, χρόνῳ in process of time, [[ 6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 18, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.80, 176, +others: frequently in Trag., as 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 126, 463, “Ch.” 650 (all Lyric poetry); also χρόνῳ κοτέ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.62; τῷ χ. ποτέ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 865 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; χρόνῳ, χρόνοις ὕστερον, long after, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.8, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.39 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ χρόνῳ immediately, Ps.Democr.Alch.p.49B.: also with Article, τῷ χ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 66, 1242. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3.d ὁ ἄλλος χ., in Attic dialect, of past time, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.16, ὁ λοιπὸς χ.,] Refs 4th c.BC+] of future, see at {λοιπός} 3; so χ. ἐφέρπων, ἐπαντέλλων, μέλλων, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.97, 8.28, 10(11).7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also κατὰ χ. ἱκνούμενον or κατὰ χ. [τὸν] ἱ. at a later (or the fitting) time, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Antoninus Liberalis Mythographus 27.4 (compare ἱκνέομαι 111.2). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__4 with Preps.:—ἀνὰ χρόνον in course of time, after a time, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.173, 2.151, 5.27, +others ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4.b ἀφ᾽ οὗ χρόνου from such time as.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.13. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4.c διὰ χρόνου after a time, after an interval, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 758, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 904, “Pl.” 1055, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.94; διὰ χρόνου πολλοῦ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.27; διὰ π. χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1476; διὰ μακρῶν χρόνων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 22d: but χρόνος.. διὰ χρόνου προὔβαινέ μοι] Refs 5th c.BC+] means one space of time after another, day after day, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 285. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4.d ἐκ πολλοῦ τευ χ. a long time since, long ago, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.58. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4.e ἐν χρόνῳ, like{χρόνῳ}, in course of time, at length, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 1000 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; for a long time, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 278d; ἐν πολλῷ χρόνῳ [prev. work] 228a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν χρόνοισι perhaps formerly, [[[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus] “Sphaer.” 108 (to be read Κάρπιμος). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4.f ἐντὸς χρόνου within a certain time, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.104. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4.g ἐπὶ χρόνον for a time, for a while, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.299, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.193, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.116; πολλὸν ἐπὶ χ. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.407; χρόνον ἐπὶ μακρόν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.81 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; παυρίδιον or παῦρον ἐπὶ χ., [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 133, 326. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__i μετὰ χρόνον after a time, [[ [prev. author] 2.52, etc.] Refs]; μέχρι τοῦ αὐτοῦ χ. up to the same time, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.13. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__m ὑπὸ χρόνου by lapse of time, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.21: but ὑπὸ αὐτὸν τὸν χ.] Refs 5th c.BC+] about the same time, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.165, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.100 (_plural_). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
