χρώς, ὁ,
genitive χρωτός, dative χρωτί, accusative χρῶτα (Attic dialect χρώ only in [[ 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 1.248H.): _Epic dialect_ and _Ionic dialect__genitive_ χροός, _dative_ χροΐ, _accusative_ χρόα (also in Lesbian, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 10.6, +others)] Refs 7th c.BC+], as always in Hom.and [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus, except _genitive_ χρωτός in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.575 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], accusative χρῶτα [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.172, 179, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 556; 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus uses χρωτός, 76.3 (but χροΐ 100.17); 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus uses χρωτί, χρῶτα, “P.” 1.55, “I.” 4(3).23(41) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; these forms are frequently in Trag., but Ionic dialect dative χροΐ occurs in [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 605, and χροός, χροΐ, χρόα are frequently in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus, “Hec.” 548, “Med.” 1175, “Ph.” 264, +others:— _dative_ χρῷ occurs in the phrase ἐν χρῷ see below 1.2 and in 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 2.10.] Refs 7th c.BC+] —rare in Comedy texts and _Attic dialect_ Prose.
__I of the human body, skin or flesh, οὔ σφι λίθος χρὼς οὐδὲ σίδηρος [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.510; καὶ γάρ θην τούτῳ τρωτὸς χρώς 21.568; χρῶτ᾽ ἀπονιψαμένη 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.172; ἀκρότατον δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὀϊστὸς ἐπέγραψε χρόα 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.139; ταμέειν χρόα νηλέϊ χαλκῷ 13.501 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; λιλαιοένη χροὸς ἆσαι, of a spear,[[ 21.168; κακὰ χροΐ εἵματ᾽ ἔχοντα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.506; χρῷ πῦρ ὐπαδεδρόμακεν 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 2.10; μύροις χρῶτα λιπαίνων 4th c.BC: Anaxilas Comicus 18.1 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: especially flesh, opposed to bone, φθινύθει δ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ ὀστεόφι χρώς [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.145; οὐδέ τί οἱ χρὼς σήπεται 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.414, compare 19.33 ] Refs 8th c.BC+] (which usage is said by [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus to have been Ionic, 18(2)] Refs 2nd c.AD+].435, with reference to [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 9); τὸ δέρμα τοῦ χρωτός LXX.Lev.13.11, etc.; τοῦ χρωτὸς ἥδιστον ἀπέπνει 4th c.BC: Aristoxenus Musicus “Fragmenta Historica” 84 ] LXX+5th c.BC+]: generally, one's body, frame, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.55, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 192.6 (_anapaest meter_); χριμφθῆναι χροΐ [prev. author] “Supp.” 790 (Lyric poetry); στεῖλαί νυν ἀμφὶ χρωτὶ.. πέπλους 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 821, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 605: _plural_, διὰ τί.. οἱ χρῶτες ὄζουσ; 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 877b21; also κατεδήσαντο.. τοὺς ὑγιεῖς χρῶτας, ὡς τραυματίαι 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 9.50. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]