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Χρήμη · need (χ 491) · Suda

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Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

Near χ491

χ487businessman
χ488belongings, goods, monies
χ489of money
χ490pitiable business, pitiable matter
χ491need
χ492declares to me, delivers an oracular response to me
χ493it was necessary
χ494to be necessary
χ495you need

Suda/Χ chi/χ491

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Χρήμη

need

Translated by Ioannis Doukas29 Aug 2007Vetting: high4 revisions

biography
definition
dialects, grammar, and etymology
economics
epic
historiography

2 notes · 38 words

Translation

[Meaning a] lack/want, and scarcity.¹
Herodotus [when commenting] on the life of Homer [says]: "those [sc. arguments] which had been opposed to his need".²
"He nevertheless became [involved] in great expenses".³ That is in moderate wealth and resources.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Χρήμη· χρεία, καὶ σπάνις. Ἡρόδοτος εἰς τὸν βίον Ὁμήρου· τοὺς ἐναντιωθέντας τῇ χρήμῃ αὐτοῦ. ὅμως ἐν δαπανήμασι μεγάλοις ἐγένετο. τουτέστι μετρίῳ πλούτῳ καὶ περιουσίᾳ.

Betacode

*xrh/mh: xrei/a, kai\ spa/nis. *(hro/dotos ei)s to\n bi/on *(omh/rou: tou\s e)nantiwqe/ntas th=| xrh/mh| au)tou=. o(/mws e)n dapanh/masi mega/lois e)ge/neto. toute/sti metri/w| plou/tw| kai\ periousi/a|.

Notes (2)

[1] The headword is the Ionic-dialect equivalent of the first of the glosses, i.e. xrei/a in LSJ's sense I. Besides the instance about to be given, see Archilochus fr. 130 West.
2ps.-Herodotus, On Homer's Origins, Date, and Life 170-171. For the biographical traditions on Homer see Allen 1924, 11-41, Jacoby 1933, Lefkowitz 1983, 12-24 and West 2003, 295-457. ↩
3An odd, irrelevant extract from a quite different biography: see under alpha 4174.

References

Allen 1924: Allen, T.W. Homer, The Origins and the Transmission, Oxford
Jacoby 1933: Jacoby, F., 'Homerisches I: Der Bios und die Person', Hermes 68, pp. 1-50
Lefkowitz 2003: Lefkowitz, M., The Lives of the Greek Poets , London
West 2003: Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer, edited and translated by Martin L. West, Cambridge, Massachusetts/London

Neighbouring entries

χ489Χρημάτωνof money χ490Χρῆμα οἰκτροίpitiable business, pitiable matter χ491Χρήμηneed χ492Χρῆ μοιdeclares to me, delivers an oracular response to me χ493Χρῆνit was necessary

Revision history4 revisions · last 13 Nov 2013

13 Nov 2013 — David Whitehead
30 Aug 2007tweaked headword and tr; augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
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29 Aug 2007Translated — Ioannis Doukas

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Χρήμη (Adler number chi 491), trans. Ioannis Doukas, 29 Aug 2007. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/chi/491

Translation by Ioannis Doukas for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, , licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗