χρή,
impersonal, [
Refs 8th c.BC+];
Aeolic dialect χρῆ [
Refs 7th c.BC+]; other forms are contractions (crases) of χρή (probably originally a
neuter substantive) with forms of εἰμί (
sum):
future χρἤσται [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
subjunctive χρῇ [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
infinitive χρῆναι [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; also χρῆν (see. below 111);
participle neuter plural χρηεόντα (or χρὴ ἐόντα) [
Refs 3rd c.AD+]:
imperfect ἐχρῆν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]: frequently also without the augment, χρῆν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; both forms in [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
future χρήδει [
Refs 5th c.BC+]: —
it is necessary: with
infinitive praes. aut
aorist,
it must needs, one must or
ought to do (like δεῖ, which is only once used in [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅτι χ. πάσχειν ἐθέλω[
Refs 5th c.BC+]: more frequently with
accusative person et
infinitive,
one must, ἐμὲ δὲ χ. γήραϊ πείθεσθαι [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐδέ τί σε χ. νηλεὲς ἦτορ ἔχειν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]—Sts. the
infinitive must be supplied from the context, especially in [
Refs 8th c.BC+] (i.e. ἀποπαύεσθαι) [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅθι χ. πεζὸν ἐόντα (i.e. μάρνασθαι) [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; so in Trag. and
Attic dialect, πορθεῖν ἃ μὴ χ. (i.e. πορθεῖν) [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; φύς τ᾽ ἀφ᾽ ὧν οὐ χρῆν (i.e. φῦναι), ξὺν οἷς τ᾽ οὐ χρῆν (i.e. ὁμιλεῖν) ὁμιλῶν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔκανες ὃν οὐ χρῆν (i.e. κτεῖναι) [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐπιπλεύσειέ τις ὡς χ. (i.e. ἐπιπλεῦσαι) [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; θύσαντες οἷς χ. (i.e. θῦσαι) [
Refs 5th c.BC+] —The
imperfect frequently expresses something that ought to have been, but is not, ἐνθάδ᾽ οὐ παραστατεῖ, ὡς χρῆν, Ὀρέστης[
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2 in [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
infinitive, with
accusative person et
genitive of things, οὐδέ τί σε χρὴ ἀφρποσύνης thou
hast no
need of imprudence, i. e. it does not
befit thee, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; μυθήσεαι ὅττεό (i.e. ὅτου) σε χ. [
Refs] is found in most codices of [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
3 with
dative person pro
accusative is not found; in [
Refs 8th c.BC+], the
dative belongs to the
infinitive μέλει; in [
Refs 5th c.BC+] Dobree restored με for γ; in [
Refs 5th c.BC+] depends on μετεῖνα; in [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II sometimes in a less strong sense, πῶς τοῦτο περᾶσαι χρ; how
is one to get through this? [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τί ἐχρῆν με ποιεῖ; what
was I to do? [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἓν οὐδὲν κατέστη ἴαμα ὅτι χρῆν προσφερόντας ὠφελεῖν there was no one remedy by the application of which one
could (or
was bound to) help them, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
III τὸ χρῆν (
infinitive)
fate, destiny, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ χρή [
Refs]; conjecture for τὸ χρεών (
monosyllable) in [
Refs]
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