- χρεών
- χρεών, [dialect] Ion. [full] χρεόν (the form best attested in Parm.8.45 and Hdt.); also [full] χρειών, Democr.55, τό: gen.A
τοῦ χρεών E.Hipp.1256
, HF21, but little used save in nom. and acc.:—that which must be,κατὰ τὸ χ. Anaximand.1
(Diels Vorsokr.5);τὴν μοῖραν εἰς τὸ μὴ χ. παραστρέφων E.Fr.491.3
;χ. τοῦ χρησμοῦ Plu.Nic.14
.II necessity, fate,ἥ τε ἡλικία καὶ τὸ χ. Pl.Phdr.255a
;μοίρας τοῦ χρεών τ' ἀπαλλαγή E.Hipp.1256
;εἰς τὸ χ. ἰέναι Pl.Ax.364c
; ἀπελθεῖν εἰς τὸ χ., εἰς τὸ χ. ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι, Str.1.3.21, J.AJ7.15.1; οἱ τὴν εἰς τὸ χ. πορευόμενοι (cj. for ποιούμενοι), v. l. τῶν εἰς τὸ χ. ὁδευόντων, Plu.2.113c;τό τοι χρεὼν οὐκ ἔστι μὴ χρεὼν ποιεῖν Trag.Adesp.368
;ὅ τι γὰρ μὴ χ. οὔτοι χ. παθεῖν E. Ba.515
; [Ἀλέξανδρον] τὸ χ. ἐν Βαβυλῶνι κατέλαβε Jul.Or.3.107c
.2 mostly in the phrase χρεών (sc. ἐστι), like χρή, it is necessary, c. inf., Thgn.564, A.Ag.922, S.OT633, Democr. l. c., etc.: c. acc. et inf., Pi.P.2.52, Hdt.1.41,57, 2.133, A.Pr.772,970, al., S.Ph.1439, Ar. Eq.138, Th.5.49;τὸ χ. γενέσθαι Hdt.7.17
.3 sts. as a neut. part. (like ἐξόν, etc.), it being necessary, since it was necessary, Id.5.50.III less freq., that which is expedient or right,ὅρκον δ' οὔτ' ἄδικον χ. ἔμμεναι οὔτε δίκαιον Choeril.7
;ἔννεπε τί σοι χρεὼν ὑπουργεῖν S.Ph.143
(lyr.);μητέρ' εἰ χ. ταύτην προσαυδᾶν Id.El.273
, cf. 983, Ar.Nu.1446(lyr.), etc.; with the Art.,ἔκανες ὃν οὐ χρῆν, καὶ τὸ μὴ χ. πάθε A.
Ch..930: abs. in part., ὑμεῖς ἂν οὐ χ. ἄρχοιτε ye would rule unrightfully, Th.3.40.—In Trag. χρεών ( = χρή) appears without ἐστί or ἦν; in Ar. and Prose the verb is more commonly added, but not in Ar.Nu. l. c., Pl.Sph.220d, Criti.107b, al.IV as Adj.,τῷ χ. πόσει E.Fr.501
. (Not in Hom. or Hes., Od.15.201 being f. l. for χρεώ.) [In Poets χρεών is sts. monosyll., as in Choeril. l. c., Parm.4.5, al.; outside of hexameters prob. always disyll., since χρή can be restored in E.IT1486, Fr.733.3.] (From χρεώ, with addition of ν from the synonym δέον; when used as part. abs., as in Sol.Fr.34.6, Th.3.40, from χρεὼ ὄν.)
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