χ493Χρῆν
it was necessary
[*xrh=n means the same as] e)/dei. Also [sc. attested is] e)xrh=n ["one should have"], [meaning] it was fitting. "It was necessary, the saying [goes], not to decipher in the stars how things were with you, nor to find…
Χρῆν· ἔδει. καὶ Ἐχρῆν, ἔπρεπε. χρῆν δὲ μή, τὸ λεγόμενον, ἄστροις τὰ καθ' ὑμᾶς σημαίνεσθαι, μηδὲ τί λέγει φήμη πυνθάνεσθαι, ἀλλὰ μάλιστα μὲν ἔχειν συνόντας, εἰ δὲ μή, γράμμασιν…