chrēamō

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 ἐθέλωRefs 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, ὈρέστηςRefs 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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