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χρεών

χρεών, necessity; it is necessary

χρεών, Ion. χρεόν (the form best attested in Parm. 8.45 and Hdt.); also χρειών, Democr. 55, τό: gen. 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.
    • II necessity, fate, ἥ τε ἡλικία καὶ τὸ χ. Pl. Phdr. 255a; μοίρας τοῦ χρεών τʼ ἀπαλλαγή E. Hipp. 1256; εἰς τὸ χ. ἰέναι Pl. Ax. 364c; ἀπελθεῖν εἰς τὸ χ., εἰς τὸ χ. ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι, Str. 1.3.21, J. AJ 7.15.1; οἱ τὴν εἰς τὸ χ. πορευόμενοι (cj. for ποιούμενοι), v. l. τῶν εἰς τὸ χ. ὁδευόντων, Plu. Cons.Apoll. 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.
      • 2 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.
      • 3 sts. as a neut. part. (like ἐξόν, etc.), it being necessary, since it was necessary, Id. 5.50.
    • III less freq., that which is expedient or right, ὅρκον δʼ οὔτʼ ἄδικον χ. ἔμμεναι οὔτε δίκαιον Choeril. 7; ἔννεπε τί σοι χρεὼν ὑπουργεῖν S. Ph. 143 (lyr.); μητέρʼ 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., ὑμεῖς ἂν οὐ χ. ἄρχοιτε ye would rule unrightfully, 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. Nu. l.c., Pl. Sph. 220d, Criti. 107b, al.
    • IV as Adj., τῷ χ. πόσει E. Fr. 501. (Not in Hom. or Hes., Od. 15.201 being f. l. for χρεώ.) [In Poets χρεών is sts. 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 δέον; when used as part. abs., as in Sol. Fr. 34.6, Th. 3.40, from χρεὼ ὄν.)

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