χορηγ-ία, ἡ,
office or λῃτουργία of a χορηγός, defraying of the cost of the public choruses, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.3.8 (_plural_), 5.77 (_plural_), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.16 (_plural_), etc.: used generally of λῃτουργίαι other than the τριηραρχία, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.57 (_plural_), 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.19 (_plural_), Legal cited in [same work] 18.106. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 generally, expense, [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 282. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__II generally, abundance of external means, fortune, ἡ ἐκτὸς χ. [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1178a24, compare “Pol.” 1255a14, +others] Refs 4th c.BC+]; πολιτικὴ χ. things necessary to furnish or constitute a state, [[[prev. work] 1326a5: _plural_, βασιλικαὶ χ. 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Epistulae” 89b; πρόγονοι καὶ χ. καὶ δόξα ] Refs 4th c.AD+]great fortunes, [[ 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 33.20. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II.2 metaphorically, in later historians, of supplies for war, τῶν ἀναγκαίων, τῶν ἐπιτηδείων, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.18.9, 4.71.10, etc.: _plural_, [prev. author] 1.16.6, etc. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II.2.b generally, supplies for a banquet, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.692b. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.2.c extraneous, adventitious aids, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1453b8. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]