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χρήσομαι (chresomai)

χρήσομαι is an Ancient Greek form of χράω, meaning “to declare (an oracle); to lend; (mid.) use”. It is the 1st person singular.

Found 65 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracleidae 106: κοὐδὲν βιαίῳ τῇδε χρήσομαι χερί.

Epictetus, Discourses 3.1.24: … . ἀλλʼ ὅμως ἐπεί πως κατεκρίθην πώγωνα ἔχειν πολιὸν καὶ τρίβωνα καὶ σὺ εἰσέρχῃ πρὸς ἐμὲ ὡς πρὸς φιλόσοφον, οὐ χρήσομαί σοι ὠμῶς οὐδʼ ἀπογνωστικῶς, ἀλλʼ ἐρῶ· νεανίσκε, τίνα θέλεις καλὸν ποιεῖν; γνῶθι πρῶτον τίς εἶ καὶ οὕτως κόσμε …

All forms of χράω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.