χρεών: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Ion. [[χρεόν]] (the form best attested in Parm.8.45 and Hdt.); also [[χρειών]], Democr.55, τό: gen.<br><span class="bld">A</span> τοῦ χρεών E.''Hipp.''1256, ''HF''21, 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.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[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; <b class="b3">ἀπελθεῖν εἰς τὸ χ., εἰς τὸ χ. ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι</b>, Str.1.3.21, J.''AJ''7.15.1; <b class="b3">οἱ τὴν εἰς τὸ χ. πορευόμενοι</b> (cj. for [[ποιούμενοι]]), [[varia lectio|v.l.]] <b class="b3">τῶν εἰς τὸ χ. ὁδευόντων</b>, 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.<br><span class="bld">2</span> mostly in the phrase [[χρεών]] (''[[sc.]]'' [[ἐστι]]), like [[χρή]], it is [[necessary]], c. inf., Thgn.564, A.''Ag.''922, S.''OT''633, 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.<br><span class="bld">3</span> sometimes as a neut. part. (like [[ἐξόν]], etc.), [[it being necessary]], [[since it was necessary]], Id.5.50.<br><span class="bld">III</span> 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., <b class="b3">ὑμεῖς ἂν οὐ χ. ἄρχοιτε</b> ye would rule un[[rightfully]], Th.3.40.—In Trag. [[χρεών]](= [[χρή]]) appears without [[ἐστί]] or <b class="b3">ἦν</b>; in Ar. and Prose the verb is more commonly added, but not in Ar.''Nu.'' l. c., Pl.''Sph.''220d, ''Criti.''107b, al.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> as adjective, τῷ χ. πόσει E.''Fr.''501. (Not in Hom. or Hes., Od.15.201 being [[falsa lectio|f.l.]] for [[χρεώ]].) [In Poets [[χρεών]] is sometimes monosyll., as in Choeril. l. c., Parm.4.5, al.; outside of hexameters prob. always disyll., since [[χρή]] can be restored in E.''IT''1486, ''Fr.''733.3.] (From [[χρεώ]], with addition of ν from the synonym <b class="b3">δέον</b>; when used as part. abs., as in Sol.''Fr.''34.6, Th.3.40, from <b class="b3">χρεὼ ὄν</b>.)