χρῡσός, ὁ,
gold, τιμῆς [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.475, etc.; coupled with other precious things, e.g. χαλκός, σίδηρος, 6.48 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐσθής, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.38 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; χρυσὸν κέρασιν περιχεύας (of a victim) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.294 = 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.384, compare 437; ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε τις χρυσὸν περιχεύεται ἀργύρῳ 6.232; χ. δαμασίφρων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.78 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κοῖλος ἄργυρος καὶ χ. silver and gold plate, [[ 4th c.BC: Theopompus Historicus 283a, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nav.” 20 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; λευκὸς χ. white gold, i.e. gold alloyed with silver, opposed to χ. ἄπεφθος refined gold, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.50; χ. ἑψόμενος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 4.82; χρυσὸν καθαίρειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 303d; βασανίζειν ἐν πυρί [prev. author] “R.” 413e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 gold, to express anything made of gold, e. g. golden armour or raiment, χρυσὸν.. ἔδυνε περὶ χροΐ, of Zeus, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.43 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of Poseidon, [[ 13.25; τὸ ἐμὸν σῶμα μήτε ἐν χ. θῆτε.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.7.25 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀραρότως σύνδεσμα χρυσὸς (a gold crown) εἶχε [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1193; ἐν χρυσῷ πίνειν 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Merc. Cond.” 26. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 frequently used by Poets to denote anything dear or precious, ταῦτα μὲν.. κρείσσονα χρυσοῦ.. φωνεῖς [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 372 (_anapaest meter_); ὁ χ. ἧσσον κτῆμα τοῦ κλάειν ἂν ἦν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 557; ὡς χρυσὸς αὐτῷ τἀμὰ.. κακὰ δόξει ποτ᾽ εἶναι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 432, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Ars Rhetorica” 9.4; compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.1, 3.42, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sertorius” 5: _metaphorically_ also, χρυσὸς ἐπῶν] Refs 5th c.BC+] golden words, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 268; χρυσῷ πάττειν τινά [prev. author] “Nu.” 912 (_anapaest meter_); ὗσαι χρυσόν τινι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.50. [ῡ] in χρυσός] Refs 5th c.BC+] and all derivations, though Lyric Poets sometimes made υ short in the adjective χρύσεος (which see); once we have χρῠσός, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.78 ] Refs 5th c.BC+].] (Borrowed from Semitic, cf. Hebrew chārūts, Assyr. h_urāšu 'gold', Aramaic hara 'yellow'.)