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|Definition=[ᾰ], ἡ, gen. χάρῐτος: acc. χάριν [ῑ] in arsi, <span class="bibl">Il.5.874</span>], etc.; also <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> χάριτα <span class="bibl">Hdt.6.41</span>, <span class="bibl">9.107</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">El.</span>61</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Hel.</span>1378</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>3.5.16</span>, <span class="bibl">Phylarch. 24</span> J., <span class="title">PGen.</span>47.17 (iv A.D.), etc. (un-Attic, acc. to Moer.p.414P.): χάριταν <span class="title">Gloss.</span>: pl. χάριτες; dat. χάρισι, χαρίτεσσι, <span class="bibl">Od.6.237</span>, <span class="bibl">Il. 17.51</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>7.93</span>: (χαίρω):—[[grace]]: </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> in objective sense, [[outward]] [[grace]] or [[favour]], [[beauty]], prop. of persons or their portraits, θεσπεσίην δ' ἄρα τῷ γε χάριν κατεχεύατ' Ἀθήνη <span class="bibl">Od.2.12</span>, etc.; χάριν ἀμφιχέαι κεφαλῇ <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>65</span>; εὐμόρφων δὲ κολοσσῶν ἔχθεται χ. ἀνδρί <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span> 417</span> (lyr.): pl., [[graces]], κάλλεϊ καὶ χάρισι στίλβων <span class="bibl">Od.6.237</span>; ὄσσοις χάριτας Ἀφροδίτης ἔχων <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ba.</span>236</span>; μετὰ χαρίτων [[gracefully]], <span class="bibl">Th.2.41</span>: less freq. of things, χάριν δ' ἀπελάμπετο [[πολλή]], of [[ear-ring]]s, <span class="bibl">Il.14.183</span>; of works, ἔργοισι χάριν καὶ κῦδος ὀπάζει <span class="bibl">Od.15.320</span>; of words, οὔ οἱ χ. ἀμφιπεριστέφεται ἐπέεσσιν <span class="bibl">8.175</span>; πλείστη δὲ χ. κατὰ μέτρον ἰούσης [γλώσσης] <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>720</span>; ταὶ Διωνύσου σὺν βοηλάτα χάριτες διθυράμβῳ <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>13.19</span>; ἡ τῶν λόγων χ. <span class="bibl">D.4.38</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">D.H. <span class="title">Comp.</span>23</span>; μῦθοι πληθόμενοι χαρίτων <span class="title">AP</span>9.186 (Antip.Thess.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[glory]], Φερενίκου χ. <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>1.18</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">8.57</span>,<span class="bibl">80</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> in subjective sense, [[grace]] or [[favour]] felt, whether on the part of the [[doer]] or the [[receiver]] (both senses appear in such phrases as ὅτ' . . ἡ χάρις χάριν φέροι <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>779</span>; χάρις χάριν γάρ ἐστιν ἡ τίκτουσ' ἀεί <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Aj.</span>522</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>1234</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1385a16</span>): </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> on the part of the doer, [[grace]], [[kindness]], [[goodwill]], τινος [[for]] or [[towards]] one, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>190</span>; τῶν Μεσσηνίων χάριτι πεισθείς <span class="bibl">Th.3.95</span>; [[οὐ χάριτι τῇ ἐμῇ]] = [[not]] [[for]] [[any]] [[kind]] [[feeling]] [[towards]] me, <span class="bibl">Antipho 5.41</span>: abs., εἰ δέ τις μείζων χ. <span class="bibl">A. <span class="title">Supp.</span>960</span>; τῆς παλαιᾶς χ. ἐκβεβλημένη <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>808</span>; ἦ μεγάλα χ. δώρῳ σύν ὀλίγῳ <span class="bibl">Theoc.28.24</span>; χ. εὑρεῖν ἐναντίον τοῦ θεοῦ <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ge.</span>6.8</span>, al.; χάριν ἔχειν πρὸς τὸν δῆμον <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Dem.</span>7</span>; [[partiality]], [[favour]], μήτε ἔλεον μήτε συγγνώμην μήτε χ. μηδεμίαν περὶ πλείονος ποιήσασθαι τῶν νόμων <span class="bibl">Lys.14.40</span>; οὐ συμφωνοῦσιν ὀργαὶ καὶ χάριτες μακαριότητι Epicur. <span class="title">Ep.</span>i<span class="bibl">p.28</span> U., cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>740c</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> more freq. on the part of the receiver, [[sense of favour]] received, [[thankfulness]], [[gratitude]], χάριν καὶ κῦδος ἄροιο <span class="bibl">Il.4.95</span>; ἀρέομαι πὰρ Σαλαμῖνος Ἀθαναίων χ. <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>1.76</span>; τινος [[for]] a thing, οὐδέ τίς ἐστι χάρις μετόπισθ' εὐεργέων <span class="bibl">Od.4.695</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">22.319</span>; ἀντὶ πόνων χ. <span class="bibl">Th.4.86</span>: less freq. c. inf., οὐκ ἄρα τις χάρις ἦεν μάρνασθαι = one has, it seems, no [[thank]]s [[for]] [[fighting]], <span class="bibl">Il.9.316</span>, <span class="bibl">17.147</span>; οἵ οἱ ἀπεμνήσαντο χ. εὐεργεσιάων <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>503</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Th.1.137</span>; χάριν φέρειν τινί <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>10(11).17</span>; χ. τροφεῦσιν ἀμείβων <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>728</span> (lyr.); φιλότητος ἀμειβόμεναι χ. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>134</span> (lyr.); χάριν [[εἰδέναι]] τινί = to [[acknowledge]] a [[sense]] of [[favour]], [[feel]] [[grateful]], once in Hom., ἐγὼ δέ κέ τοι ἰδέω χ. ἤματα πάντα <span class="bibl">Il.14.235</span>; freq. in Prose, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.21</span>, <span class="bibl">Lys.2.23</span>, <span class="bibl">Isoc.4.175</span>, etc.; τούτων [[for]] a thing, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.6.11</span>, etc.; τοῖς διαπεπραγμένοις <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Alex.</span>62</span>; μοι χ. οἶδεν ἐπὶ τούτοις Luc. Bis Acc.17; χ. προσειδέναι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ap.</span>20a</span>; ἀποδιδόναι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">R.</span>338a</span>; τινὰ ἀποστερῆσαι χάριτος <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Hp.Mi.</span>372c</span>; later χ. γνῶναι <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">VA</span>2.17</span>; πολλὴν γνοῦσα χ. <span class="bibl">X.Eph.3.5</span>; χάριν [[ἐπίσταμαι]] πᾶσι <span class="bibl">Charito 3.4</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">8.5</span>, <span class="bibl">Poll.5.142</span>, <span class="bibl">Jul.<span class="title">Or.</span>8.246c</span>; also τῶν παροιχομένων ἔχειν σφι μεγάλην χ. <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.120</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">1.71</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Heracl.</span>767</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">IT</span>847</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Lys.16.1</span>, <span class="bibl">Hyp.<span class="title">Ath.</span>5</span>: c. part., χ. ἔχειν σωθέντες <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>2.5.14</span>; also χάριτας ἔχων πατρός = owing him a [[debt]] of [[gratitude]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span>244</span>: but ἀσπασμάτων χάριν τίν' ἕξει; what [[thanks]] will she have [[for]] . . ? <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Hec.</span> 830</span>; χ. ἂν ἐν τούτῳ μείζω ἔτι ἔσχεν <span class="bibl">Th.8.87</span>; χάριν [[ὀφείλειν]] = to [[owe]] [[gratitude]], [[be beholden]], τοῖς θεοῖς <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>331</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>3.2.30</span>; προσοφείλειν <span class="bibl">D.3.31</span>; χ. οὐδεμία ἐφαίνετο πρὸς Ἀθηναίων <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.90</span>; [[χάριν ἀθάνατον καταθέσθαι]] to [[lay up]] a [[store]] of [[undying]] [[gratitude]], <span class="bibl">Id.7.178</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">6.41</span>; τῇ πόλει χάριν καταθέσθαι <span class="bibl">Antipho 5.61</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Th.1.33</span>; [[χάριν λαβεῖν τινος]] = [[receive]] [[thanks]] from one, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>1004</span>, etc.; ἀπολαβεῖν παρά τινων <span class="bibl">Lys.20.31</span>; τινος [[for]] a thing, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>2.2.5</span>, <span class="bibl">Aeschin.2.4</span>; διπλῆν ἐξ ἐμοῦ κτήσει χάριν <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1370</span>; κἀπ' ἐμοῦ κτήσει χ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Tr.</span>471</span>; κομίσασθαι χ. <span class="bibl">Th.3.58</span>; χάριτος τυχεῖν <span class="bibl">Lycurg. 135</span>; ἀπέχειν χάριτας <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Epigr.</span>51.4</span>, etc.; τοῖς θεοῖς [[χάρις]] (sc. [[ἐστί]]) <b class="b3"> ὅτι</b>... [[thank]] the [[god]]s that... <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>3.3.14</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Cyr.</span>7.5.72</span>; χ. τινί τινος <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Tim.</span>36</span>; τινὶ ὑπέρ τινος Plu.2.1122a. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[favour]], [[influence]], opp. force, χάριτι τὸ πλέον ἢ φόβῳ <span class="bibl">Th.1.9</span>; χ. καὶ δεήσει, opp. [[ἀπειλῇ]], <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Sull.</span>38</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[love-charm]], [[philtre]], <span class="bibl">Luc. <span class="title">Alex.</span>5</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Merc.Cond.</span>40</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> in concrete sense, a [[favour]] done or returned, [[boon]], [[χάριν φέρειν τινί]] [[confer]] a [[favour]] on one, do a thing [[to oblige]] him, <span class="bibl">Il.5.211</span>,<span class="bibl">874</span>, <span class="bibl">9.613</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.5.307</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IT</span>14</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Or.</span>239</span>, <span class="bibl">And.2.24</span> (so in Med., of the recipient, ib.<span class="bibl">9</span>); ἄλλοις χ. φέροντες <span class="bibl">Th.3.54</span>; [[χάριν θέσθαι]] or τίθεσθαί τινι, <span class="bibl">Hdt.9.60</span>,<span class="bibl">107</span>, <span class="bibl">A. <span class="title">Pr.</span>782</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hec.</span>1211</span>, etc.; προσθέσθαι <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>767</span>; χ. ὑπουργῆσαί τινι <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>635</span>; παρασχεῖν <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>1183</span>; πράσσειν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ion</span>36</span>, <span class="bibl">896</span> (lyr.); δράσας <span class="bibl">Th.2.40</span>; ἀνύσαι prob. in <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>995</span> (anap.); νέμειν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Aj.</span>1371</span>; χ. δοῦναί τινι <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>821</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>1489</span> (but χάριν [[δοῦναι]], = [[χαρίζεσθαι]] (<span class="bibl">1.2</span>), [[indulge]], [[humour]], [[ὀργῇ]] ib.<span class="bibl">855</span>; γαστρί <span class="bibl">Cratin.317</span>); χάριν [[χαρίζεσθαι]], v. [[χαρίζομαι]] <span class="bibl">1.1</span>: χάριν [[ἀνθυπουργεῖν]] [[return]] a [[favour]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>339</span>; τίνειν <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>985</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ag.</span>821</span>; χάριτας πατρῴας ἐκτίνων <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span>453</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Mx.</span>242c</span>, etc.; χάριν [[ἀποδιδόναι]] τινί <span class="bibl">Lys.12.60</span>, <span class="bibl">28.17</span>; ἀντί τινος <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Ages.</span>2.29</span>; ὑπέρ τινος <span class="bibl">Isoc.4.56</span>; τῶν ἔργων τὰς χάριτας ἀποδ. τινί <span class="bibl">Lys.31.24</span>; χάριτας ἀντιδιδόναι <span class="bibl">Th.3.63</span>; opp. χάριν [[ἀπαιτεῖν]] = to [[ask]] the [[repayment]] of a [[boon]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hec.</span>276</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Lys.18.23</span>, <span class="bibl">D.20.156</span>; χάριτας ἀπ. <span class="bibl">Lycurg.139</span>; χάριν [[ἐξαιτεῖσθαι]] <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>586</span>; χάριν [[ἀποστερεῖν]] = [[withhold]] a [[return]] for what one has received, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span> 520c</span>; τὰς αὑτοῦ εἰς τοὺς φίλους χ. the [[favours]] one has done them, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lg.</span>729d</span>; χ. ἄχαρις α = [[thankless]] [[favour]], one which receives, or deserves, no thanks, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>545</span> (lyr.); χ. ἀχάριτος <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ch.</span>42</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1757</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> [[grant]] made in [[legal]] [[form]], <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>273.14</span> (i A.D.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PGrenf.</span>2.70.5</span> (iii A.D.), etc.; αἱ τῶν Σεβαστῶν χ. [[imperial]] [[grant]]s, <span class="title">OGI</span>669.44 (Egypt, i A.D.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> especially in erotic sense, of [[favour]]s [[grant]]ed (v. [[χαρίζομαι]] 1.3), ἀλόχου χάριν [[ἰδεῖν]] <span class="bibl">Il.11.243</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1206</span>: more freq. in plural, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Hier.</span>1.34</span>, <span class="bibl">7.6</span>, etc.; βίᾳ δ' ἔπραξας χάριτας ἢ πείσας κόρην; <span class="title">Trag.Adesp.</span>402; in full, χάριτες ἀφροδισίων ἐρώτων <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">Fr.</span>128</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>254a</span>, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> [[gratification]], [[delight]], τινος [[in]] or [[from]] a thing, συμποσίου <span class="bibl">Pi. <span class="title">O.</span>7.5</span>; νίκας <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">O.</span>10(11).78</span>; ὕπνου χ. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span>159</span> (lyr.); even χ. γόων <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Supp.</span>79</span> (lyr.); also concrete, of things, a [[delight]], <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">I.</span>2.19</span> (pl.); τὰν βοτρυώδη Διονύσου χ. οἴνας <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ba.</span>535</span> (lyr.), cf. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>311</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Jul.<span class="title">Or.</span>3.125b</span>; ἔνοπτρα, παρθένων χάριτας <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Tr.</span>1108</span> (lyr.): abs., Ἔρως . . εἰσάγων γλυκεῖαν χ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>527</span> (lyr.); opp. [[λύπη]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>821</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>655</span> (lyr.); opp. [[πόνος]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>232</span> (lyr.); θανεῖν πολλὴ χάρις <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>550</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">1304</span>; βίου χ. μεθεῖσα <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Med.</span>227</span>; οὐδεμίαν ἔχω τῷ βίῳ χάριν <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>865</span>; τοῖς δὲ σιτίοις χ. οὐδεμίαν οἶδ' ἐσθίων ib.<span class="bibl">869</span>; less freq. in Prose, χ. καὶ ἡδονή <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>462c</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">D.20.26</span>; τοσαύτην ἔχει χ. <span class="bibl">Isoc.9.10</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">V</span> [[δαιμόνων χάρις]] [[homage]] [[due]] to them, their [[worship]], [[majesty]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span> 182</span> (lyr.); ἀθίκτων χ. ib.<span class="bibl">371</span> (lyr.); ὅρκων <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Med.</span>439</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[thank-offering]], εὐκταία χ. τινός, opp. a [[common]] [[gift]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1387</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Hier.</span>8.4</span>; ἔπεμψε χαίτην κουρίμην χ. πατρός <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>180</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">517</span>; τιμὴ καὶ γέρα καὶ χ. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Euthphr.</span>15a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">La.</span>187a</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">VI</span> Special usages: </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> acc. sg. as Adv., χ. τινός = [[in]] any one's [[favour]], [[for]] his [[pleasure]], [[for]] his [[sake]], χ. Ἕκτορος <span class="bibl">Il.15.744</span>; [[ψεύδεσθαι]] γλώσσης χάριν [[for]] one's [[tongue]]'s [[pleasure]], i.e. [[for]] [[talk]]ing's [[sake]], <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>709</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>266</span>; rarely with Art., τὴν Ἀθηναίων χάριν ἐστρατεύοντο <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.99</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> as [[preposition]], sometimes before its case (once in <span class="bibl">Pi., <span class="title">P.</span>2.70</span>; χάριν πλησμονῆς <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>241c</span>; χάριν [[φιλία]]ς <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Sent.Vat.</span>28</span>; χάριν τίνος; <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">2 Ch.</span>7.21</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>743.29</span> (i B. C.), etc.), but mostly after, [[for the sake of]], [[on behalf of]], [[on account of]], κακά νιν ἕλοιτο μοῖρα δυσπότμου χάριν χλιδᾶς <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>888</span> (lyr.); [[τοῦ χάριν]]; [[for]] what [[reason]]? <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>53</span>; συγχωρῶ τοῦ λόγου χ. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>475a</span>; so [[ἐμὴν χάριν]], [[χάριν σήν]], [[for]] my, thy [[pleasure]] or [[sake]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>1046</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>1238</span>, etc.; κείνου τε καὶ σὴν ἐξ ἴσου κοινὴν χ. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>485</span>: less freq. with the Art., τὴν σὴν δ' ἥκω χ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1413</span> (anap.); σοῦ τε τήν τ' ἐμὴν χ. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>762</span>:—pleon., τίνος χάριν ἕνεκα; <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>701d</span>; also [[χάριν τινός]] [[as far as regards]]... [[as]] [[to]]... ἔπους σμικροῦ χ. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>443</span>; [[δακρύων χάριν]] = [[if]] [[tear]]s [[would]] [[serve]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Fr.</span>557.6</span>; χ. θανάτου πόλιν ἀτείχιστον οἰκοῦμεν <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Sent.Vat.</span>31</span>; also, [[about]], ἔπεμφεν ἐπὶ τὴν πενθεράν σου χ. τοῦ κτήματος = [[about]] the [[farm]], <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PFay.</span>126.5</span> (ii/iii A. D.).—Orig. an acc. in [[apposition]] with the [[sentence]], as in <span class="bibl">Il.15.744</span>, etc., [[be]]ing a [[favour]], [[since]] it is (was) a [[favour]], as is evident in κακῆς γυναικὸς χάριν ἄχαριν ἀπώλετο <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IT</span>566</span>; τινὸς νίκας ἀκάρπωτον χ. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>176</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> with Preps.: </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">a</span> [[εἰς χάριν]] = [[to do a pleasure]], οὐδὲν ἐς χ. πράσσων <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">OT</span>1353</span> (lyr.); ἐς χ. τίθεσθαί τι <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Mar.</span>46</span>; μηδὲ κρίσιν εἰς χ. ἕλκε <span class="bibl">Ps.-Phoc.9</span> (but ἐς τὴν τῶν ξυμμάχων χάριν = in such a way as to [[earn]] [[thanks]] . . <span class="bibl">Th.3.37</span>); also κατὰ χάριν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>740c</span>; χάριτος [[ἕνεκα]] ib.<span class="bibl">771d</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> πράσσειν τί τινι πρὸς χάριν <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>1776</span> (anap.); δρᾶσαι <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>1281</span>; τοῖσι πολλοῖς πρὸς χάριν λέγειν τι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Hec.</span>257</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>4.4.4</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">HG</span>6.3.7</span>, <span class="bibl">Isoc.2.18</span>, <span class="bibl">D.8.1</span> (but πρὸς χάριν βορᾶς = [[for the sake]] of it, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>30</span>); πρὸς χάριν, opp. [[κλαίων]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">OT</span>1152</span>:—but πρὸς χάριν εὐσεβίας, just like χάριν, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>8.8</span>; τίνος νόμου ταῦτα πρὸς χάριν λέγω; <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>908</span>; πρὸς ἰσχύος χ. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Med.</span>538</span>; [[πρὸς χάριν]] alone, [[as]] a [[favour]], [[freely]], πρὸς χ. τε κοὐ βίᾳ <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>28</span>; but κορέσαι στόμα πρὸς χάριν [[to]] their [[heart]]'s [[content]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1156</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">c</span> [[ἐν χάριτι κρίνειν τινά]] to [[decide]] from [[partiality]] to one, <span class="bibl">Theoc.5.69</span>; but also, [[for]] one's [[gratification]], [[pleasure]], ἐν χάριτι διδόναι or ἐν χάριτι ποιεῖν τινί τι, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Oec.</span>8.10</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phd.</span>115b</span>: παραλαμβάνειν ἐν χάρισιν [[gratefully]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lg.</span>796b</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">d</span> διὰ χαρίτων εἶναι or γίγνεσθαί τινι = to [[be pleasing to one]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Hier.</span>9.1</span>,<span class="bibl">2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">e</span> ἐθελοντὶ καὶ μετὰ χάριτος = of [[pure]] [[good]] [[will]], <span class="bibl">Plb.2.22.5</span>, etc.; ἐθελούσιοι καὶ χάριτος ἕνεκα ἐξιόντες <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>4.2.11</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">VII</span> metaph. of the [[cypress]], <span class="bibl">Gp.11.4.1</span>; of some kind of [[myrtle]], Sch.<span class="bibl">Il.17.51</span>; of [[salt]], ὅτι τὸ ἀναγκαῖον ἡδὺ ποιοῦσιν (sc. [[ἅλες]]) Plu.2.685a. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">B</span> [[Χάρις]], ἡ, as a mythological pr. n. declined like [[χάρις]], save that the acc. is generally [[Χάριτα]] (exc. <span class="title">AP</span>5.148 (Mel.), <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">DDeor.</span> 15.1</span>, <span class="bibl">Paus.9.35.4</span>): poet. dat. pl. Χαρίτεσσι <span class="bibl">Il.17.51</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>9.54</span>; [[Χάρισσιν]] ib.<span class="bibl">5.54</span>:—[[Charis]], [[wife]] of [[Hephaestus]], <span class="bibl">Il.18.382</span>; mostly in plural [[Χάριτες]], [[αἱ]],</b> the [[Graces]], <span class="bibl">14.267</span>,<span class="bibl">275</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.6.18</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>2.50</span>, etc.; three in number, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>907</span>, etc. (τέσσαρες αἱ Χάριτες, as a [[compliment]], <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Epigr.</span>52.1</span>); [[attendant]]s of [[Aphrodite]], <span class="bibl">Il.5.338</span>, <span class="bibl">Hes. <span class="title">Op.</span>73</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Ven.</span>61</span>, <span class="bibl">Paus.6.24.7</span>; coupled with [[Μοῦσαι]], <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>64</span>; κόμαι Χαρίτεσσιν ὁμοῖαι, i.e. like that of the [[Graces]], <span class="bibl">Il.17.51</span>; worshipped at [[Orchomenus]] in [[Boeotia]], Ἐτεόκλειοι Χάριτες θεαί <span class="bibl">Theoc. 16.104</span>, cf. Sch. ad loc., <span class="bibl">Str.9.2.40</span>, <span class="bibl">Paus.9.35.3</span>, <span class="bibl">9.38.1</span>: but at [[Lacedaemon]] and Athens only two were orig. worshipped, <span class="bibl">Id.3.18.6</span>, <span class="bibl">9.35.2</span>; Χαρίτων ἱερὸν ἐμποδὼν ποιοῦνται <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1133a3</span>; θύειν ταῖς X. Plu.2.141f; in [[adjuration]]s, πρὸς τῶν Χαρίτων <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span> 152c</span>; νὴ τὰς Χάριτας <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Hist.Conscr.</span>26</span>; ὦ φίλαι X. Plu.2.710d.— Rarely in sg., Χάρις [[ζωθάλμιος]] <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>7.11</span>; Χάριτος ἡδίστης θεῶν <span class="bibl">Antiph. 228.4</span>.</span>