χροιά,
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect χροιή, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.164, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1017 (in Callias Epigrammaticus “Lav. Pall.” 28 χροϊά (χροίην codices))] Refs 8th c.BC+], Attic dialect χροιά and χρόα, the latter always in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus (see. below), also in 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “D.” 3.9, _sign._ 5, +others (see. χρώς)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—skin, especially of the human body, hence the body itself, παραδραθέειν φιλότητι ᾑ χροιῇ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” [same place]; κατὰ χροιὴν ῥέει ἱδρώς 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus [same place]; ὄζειν.. τῆς χρόας ἔφασκεν ἡδύ μου 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1020 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὰ ἐξανθεῦντα ἐς τὴν χροιὴν (skin, surface) ἢ χροιῇ (colour,[[ signification 11) ἢ οἰδήμασι 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τέχνης” 9: compare χρώς. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, 'skin', i.e. surface, Pythagorean term, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Sensu” 439a31, “Placita Philosophorum” 1.15.2, “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 18(_plural_); χ. ἐπίπεδος [prev. work]10; so perhaps in 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 81, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 5, +others ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 appearance to the eye, of heavenly bodies, [[ [prev. author] “D.” 3.9. ] Refs]
__II superficial appearance of a thing, its colour, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 451, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 493, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 517 (Lyric poetry); παντοδάπαισι μεμειχμένα χροίαισιν 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 20, compare 2nd c.AD: Numenius Apamensis Platonicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 7.282a ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; τοιοῦτον (i.e. ἐρυθρόν) εἶναι τῇ χροιᾷ τὸ μέλι [[ 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Antro Nympharum - Porphyrii Opuscula” 16; ἔστιν.. χρόα ἀπορροὴ σχημάτων ὄψει σύμμετρος καὶ αἰσθητός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 76d; νόμῳ χροιή.. ἐτεῇ δ᾽ ἄτομα καὶ κενόν 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 125, compare 5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 4, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Sensu” 440a8; ἐκ τριῶν τὰς χρόας ἅπασας μεμεγμένας, τοῦ φωτός, καὶ δι᾽ ὧν φαίνεται τὸ φῶς, καὶ τῶν ὑποκειμένων χρωμάτων [prev. author] “Col.” 793b33. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]