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                    "dictionary": "Bailly",
                    "reference": "Bailly 2020 Hugo Chávez Gérard Gréco, André Charbonnet, Mark De Wilde, Bernard Maréchal & contributeurs \/ Licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification — « CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 »",
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                    "description": "<i>part. neutre de l’impers<\/i>. χρή."
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                    "reference": "Liddell-Scott-Jones, Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1940)",
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                    "description": "Ion. χρεόν (the form best attested in Parm. 8.45 and Hdt.); also χρειών, Democr. 55, τό ; gen. τοῦ χρεών E. <i>Hipp.<\/i> 1256, <i>HF<\/i> 21, but little used save in nom. and acc. : — <b>that which must be<\/b>, κατὰ τὸ χ. Anaximand. 1 (Diels Vorsokr. 5); τὴν μοῖραν εἰς τὸ μὴ χ. παραστρέφων E. <i>Fr.<\/i> 491.3; χ. τοῦ χρησμοῦ Plu. <i>Nic.<\/i> 14.<br\/><b>necessity, fate<\/b>, ἥ τε ἡλικία καὶ τὸ χ. Pl. <i>Phdr.<\/i> 255a; μοίρας τοῦ χρεών τ’ ἀπαλλαγή E. <i>Hipp.<\/i> 1256; εἰς τὸ χ. ἰέναι Pl. <i>Ax.<\/i> 364c; ἀπελθεῖν εἰς τὸ χ., εἰς τὸ χ. ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι, Str. 1.3.21, J. <i>AJ<\/i> 7.15.1; οἱ τὴν εἰς τὸ χ. πορευόμενοι (cj. for ποιούμενοι), <font color='brown'>v.l.<\/font> τῶν εἰς τὸ χ. ὁδευόντων, Plu. 2.113c; τό τοι χρεὼν οὐκ ἔστι μὴ χρεὼν ποιεῖν <i>Trag.Adesp.<\/i> 368; ὅ τι γὰρ μὴ χ. οὔτοι χ. παθεῖν E. <i>Ba.<\/i> 515; [Ἀλέξανδρον] τὸ χ. ἐν Βαβυλῶνι κατέλαβε Jul. <i>Or.<\/i> 3.107c. mostly in the phrase χρεών (sc. ἐστι), like χρή, it is <b>necessary<\/b>, c. inf., Thgn. 564, A. <i>Ag.<\/i> 922, S. <i>OT<\/i> 633, Democr. <i>l.c.<\/i>, etc. ; c. acc. et inf., Pi. <i>P.<\/i> 2.52, Hdt. 1.41, 57, 2.133, A. <i>Pr.<\/i> 772, 970, al., S. <i>Ph.<\/i> 1439, Ar. <i>Eq.<\/i> 138, Th. 5.49; τὸ χ. γενέσθαι Hdt. 7.17. sts. as a neut. <i>part.<\/i> (like ἐξόν, etc.), <b>it being necessary, since it was necessary<\/b>, Id. 5.50. less freq., <b>that which is expedient<\/b> or <b>right<\/b>, ὅρκον δ’ οὔτ’ ἄδικον χ. ἔμμεναι οὔτε δίκαιον Choeril. 7; ἔννεπε τί σοι χρεὼν ὑπουργεῖν S. <i>Ph.<\/i> 143 (lyr.); μητέρ’ εἰ χ. ταύτην προσαυδᾶν Id. <i>El.<\/i> 273, cf. 983, Ar. <i>Nu.<\/i> 1446 (lyr.), etc. ; with the Art., ἔκανες ὃν οὐ χρῆν, καὶ τὸ μὴ χ. πάθε A. <i>Ch.<\/i> 930; abs. in <i>part.<\/i>, ὑμεῖς ἂν οὐ χ. ἄρχοιτε ye would rule un<b>rightfully<\/b>, 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. <i>Nu. l.c.<\/i>, Pl. <i>Sph.<\/i> 220d, <i>Criti.<\/i> 107b, al. as <i>Adj.<\/i>, τῷ χ. πόσει E. <i>Fr.<\/i> 501. (Not in Hom. or Hes., <i>Od.<\/i> 15.201 being <font color='red'>f.l.<\/font> for χρεώ.) [In Poets χρεών is sts. monosyll., as in Choeril. <i>l.c.<\/i>, Parm. 4.5, al. ; outside of hexameters prob. always disyll., since χρή can be restored in E. <i>IT<\/i> 1486, <i>Fr.<\/i> 733.3.] (From χρεώ, with addition of ν from the synonym δέον· when used as <i>part.<\/i> abs., as in Sol. <i>Fr.<\/i> 34.6, Th. 3.40, from χρεὼ ὄν.)"
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                    "dictionary": "Pape",
                    "reference": "Pape, Griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (3. Aufl., 1914)",
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                    "description": "τό, ion. <b>χρεόν<\/b> (nach <font color='green'>Buttmann<\/font> partic. von χρή, vgl. aber <font color='green'>Wolf<\/font> <i>Lit. Anal<\/i>. 2.470), gew. nur nomin. und accus.; genit. τοῦ χρεών Eur. <i>Herc.Fur<\/i>. 21, <i>Hipp<\/i>. 1256 ; – <i>was notwendig ist, geschehen muß, Notwendigkeit, Schicksal, Verhängnis<\/i> ; τὸ δεύτερον γὰρ τοῖς ἐμοῖς αὐτὴν χρεὼν τόξοις ἁλῶναι Soph. <i>Phil<\/i>. 1439 ; Eur. <i>Hipp<\/i>. 1256, <i>I.T<\/i>. 1486 u. sonst ; – gew, χρεών ἐστιν und χρεών allein = χρή ; so εἰ χρεὼν εὔξασθαι, <i>wenn es nötig ist, wenn man muß<\/i>, Pind. <i>P<\/i>. 3.2 ; Theogn. 564 ; und mit accus. c. infin., Pind. <i>P<\/i>. 2.52, <i>N<\/i>. 11.17 ; Her. 1.41, 57, 2.133, 5.49, 109 u. sonst (wo auch χρεόν geschrieben ist); οὕτως ὑβρίζειν τοὺς ὑβρίζοντας χρεών Aesch. <i>Prom<\/i>. 972, vgl. 998 ; θεούς τοι τοῖσδε τιμαλφεῖν χρεών <i>Ag<\/i>. 896 ; τὸ μὴ χρεὼν πάθε <i>Ch<\/i>. 918 ; ἐὰν χρεὼν ἕκηλον εὕδειν Soph. <i>Phil<\/i>. 757 ; τὸ νεῖκος εὖ θέσθαι χρεών <i>O.R<\/i>. 633 ; ἀνδρί τοι χρεὼν μνήμην προσεῖναι <i>Aj<\/i>. 316, u. öfter ; so absolut auch Eur., wie Ar. <i>Eq<\/i>. 138 ; u. in Prosa, auch mit u. ohne ἐστίν : Her. 1.41, 57, 2.133, 6.43 u. sonst ; absolut χρεών = <i>da man muß<\/i>, 5.50, 9.58 ; οὐ χρεὼν ἄρχετε, <i>nicht wie man muß, wider Gebühr, wider Recht u. Billigkeit herrscht ihr<\/i>, Thuc. 3.40, vgl. 5.49 ; πληκτικὴν θήραν ἡμᾶς προσειπεῖν νῦν χρεών Plat. <i>Soph<\/i>. 220c ; ὧν ἔμπειρον χρεὼν εἶναι <i>Tim<\/i>. 55d ; τοῦτον καθήρασθαι τὸν οἶκον χρεὼν ἔστω <i>Legg<\/i>. IX.877e ; auch substantivisch, ἥ τε ἡλικία καὶ τὸ χρεὼν ἤγαγεν εἰς τὸ προέσθαι αὐτόν <i>Phaedr<\/i>. 255a, vgl. <i>Ax<\/i>. 364c, 365b ; Sp.; τὸ χρεὼν τοῦ χρησμοῦ ἐνταῦθα περαίνει Plut. <i>Nic<\/i>. 14, <i>die Prophezeiung od. die Unabänderlichkeit des Orakels<\/i>."
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