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|Definition=-εως, ἡ, ([[χράομαι]])<br><span class="bld">I</span>[[employment]], [[use]] made of a thing, ἀνέμων Pi.''O.''11(10).2; χρημάτων Democr.282; οἰκίας Pl.''Erx.''394d, cf. ''SIG''987.33 (Chios, iv B. C.); <b class="b3">τὴν κατ' ἀξίαν χ. ποιοῦνται ἑκάστῳ</b> (fort. leg. [[ἑκάστου]]) Iamb.''Protr.''5; [[use]], [[practice]], Hp.''VM''4; in plural, [[χρήσεις]] = [[uses]], [[advantages]], Pi.''N.''1.30; <b class="b3">αἱ ἐς τὰ πολεμικὰ χρήσεις</b> the [[use]]s of [[war]], [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]'' 8.5.7; αἱ πολιτικαὶ χρήσεις Arist.''Pol.''1267a23; opp. [[κτῆσις]], Pl.''Mx.''238b, [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Nicomachean Ethics|EN]]''1098b32, Cic.''Fam.''7.29.1; opp. [[πώλησις]], X.''Oec.''3.9.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[usefulness]], Th.7.5; opp. [[ἀχρηστία]], Pl.''R.''333d; ἐς χρῆσιν κρατύνεσθαι [[so as to become useful]], Hp.''Art.''27; <b class="b3">ἔχειν χρῆσιν</b> to be [[useful]], D.11.8.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[intimacy]], [[acquaintance]], <b class="b3">ἡ οἰκειότης καὶ ἡ χ. [τῆς πόλεως</b>] Isoc. ''Ep.''2.14; ἡ χ. ἡ πρὸς ἀλλήλους Arist.''Pol.''1280a36; αἱ οἴκοι χρήσεις Isoc.19.11; ἡ τῶν ἀφροδισίων χ. Pl.''Lg.''841a, [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''581b13, cf. ''Pol.'' 1262a34 (pl.), ''Ep.Rom.''1.26; <b class="b3">τὰ ἐν χρήσει</b> [[familiar]] [[object]]s, Plot.4.4.37.<br><span class="bld">4</span> Gramm., [[usage]], of words, ἡ ἐξαλλαγὴ τῆς συνήθους χ. D.H.''Amm.''2.3; <b class="b3">ἀναστρέφων τὰς χρήσεις</b> ib.2, cf. A.D.''Synt.''119.24, al.; ἡ Πλάτωνος χ. Id.''Pron.''72.18; in concrete sense, [[example]] of a word or use, <b class="b3">πυκνῶς αἱ χρήσεις παρὰ Αἰολεῦσιν</b> ib.66.3; [[passage]] cited, [[falsa lectio|f.l.]] for [[κρίσει]] in D.H.''Rh.''4.3; indicated by the symbol †, Anon.''Oxy.''1611.56 (iii A. D.); † [[Ἀριστοφάνους]] (referring to ''Av.''1181) ''An.Ox.''2.452.<br><span class="bld">II</span> ([[χράω]] (B) A), [[oracular response]], <b class="b3">ἀπὸ κείνου χρήσιος</b> at his [[bidding]], Pi.''O.''13.76.<br><span class="bld">III</span> ([[χράω]] (B) B), [[lending]], [[loan]], [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Nicomachean Ethics|EN]]'' 1131a4, Plb.31.23.4, Ps.-Phoc.106.