χρώμεθα (chrometha)

χρώμεθα is an Ancient Greek form of χράω, meaning “to declare (an oracle); to lend; (mid.) use”.

It can also be a form of χράομαι, “to use, make use of; consult”. It is the 1st person plural present middle/passive subjunctive or 1st person plural present middle/passive optative.

It can also be a form of χραύω, “graze, wound slightly”.

Found 107 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.37.1: ‘χρώμεθα γὰρ πολιτείᾳ οὐ ζηλούσῃ τοὺς τῶν πέλας νόμους, παράδειγμα δὲ μᾶλλον αὐτοὶ ὄντες τισὶν ἢ μιμούμενοι ἑτέρους. κ …

Xenophon, Anabasis 3.2.36: … πλευρῶν ἑκατέρων εἶναι, τίνας δʼ ὀπισθοφυλακεῖν, οὐκ ἂν ὁπότε οἱ πολέμιοι ἔλθοιεν βουλεύεσθαι ἡμᾶς δέοι, ἀλλὰ χρῴμεθα ἂν εὐθὺς τοῖς τεταγμένοις.

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.