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χρύσεος, η, ον,

also ος, ον in AP 5.30 (Antip.Thess.), Att. contr. χρυσοῦς, ῆ, οῦν IG 12.358.4, etc.; χρύσειος, η, ον: Hom. and Hes. use both χρύσεος and -ειος, χρυσῇ is dub. in Il. 5.425; Lyr. used χρύσεος, α, ον, and this form sts. occurs in Trag. dialogue and even in Prose, as X. Ages. 5.5 codd., Plu. Luc. 37, Apollod. 2.5.10, Ant.Lib. 36.1; Aeol. χρύσιος Sapph. 1.8, al. (but χρύσεα Theoc. 29.37); Boeot. χρούσιος SIG 337.8 (iv B. C.): (χρυσός): — golden, freq. in , esp. of what belonged to gods, χρυσέῳ ἐν δαπέδῳ, χρυσέοις δεπάεσσι, χρύσειον ἐπὶ θρόνον, etc., Il. 4.2, 3, 8.442, al.; χ. τάλαντα the golden scales of Zeus, 22.209; χ. ἰτύς, ζυγόν, of Hera's chariot, 5.724, 730; ἱμάσθλη χ., of Zeus and Poseidon, 8.44 = 13.26; ζώνη χ., of Calypso and Circe, Od. 5.232 = 10.545, etc.; δόμος Sapph. l.c.; of possessions of mortals, Il. 4.133, 5.425, al.: sts. enriched or adorned with gold, χ. σκῆπτρον 1.15, cf. 246; μάχαιρα 18.598; θύραι Od. 7.88; κλῖναι, κρητῆρες, Hdt. 9.82, 80; ἕστηκε.. Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ χ., of a statue, Id. 8.121; χρυσοῦς στάθητι Luc. Pseudol. 15.

2. χρύσεια μέταλλα gold -mines, Th. 4.105 (the only instance of χρύσειος in Att., cf. χρυσεῖον).

3. χρυσοῦς (sc. στατήρ), ὁ, a gold coin, = στατήρ, IG 7.303.98, al. (Oropus, iii B. C.), IPE 12.32 A 13 (Olbia, iii B. C.), LXX Genesis 24:22, Plu. Per. 25 (in Pap., not a coin, but the equivalent of 20 silver drachmae, PCair.Zen. 28.11 (iii B. C.), etc.); χρυσοῖ ἐπίσημοι Plb. 4.56.3, cf. Poll. 9.53, 59, Hsch.

4. χρύσεον, τό, gold plaque, SIG 1122.7 (Selinus, V B.C.).

II gold-coloured, golden-yellow, ἔθειραι Il. 8.42, 13.24; χ. νέφη ib. 523, etc.; ἀέρος κόμαι Pi. Pae. 6.137; τῶν τὰ χρυσᾶ the yolks of eggs, Ath. 9.376d.

III metaph., golden, χρυσέη Ἀφροδίτη Il. 3.64, Od. 8.337; Μοῖσα Pi. I. 8(7).5; σθένος ἀελίου χ. Id. P. 4.144; ὦ χ. θύγατερ Διός S. OT 188 (lyr.); Ἐλπίς ib. 158 (lyr.); τιμή Id. Ant. 699; ὦ χρυσοῖ θεοί Ar. Ra. 483; χ. ὑγίεια Pi. P. 3.73; λογισμοῦ ἀγωγή Pl. Lg. 645a; ἦθος Antiph. 212.5; τὸ χ. ὀρνίθων γένος Id. 175; χ. γένος ἀνθρώπων, of the Golden Age, Hes. Op. 109, cf. Pl. R. 468e, Phdr. 235e, Cra. 397e. sts. used ironically, ἐγὼ δὲ ὁ χ. but I, fine fellow that I am.., Luc. Laps. 1; Πλάτωνα χρυσοῦν (sc. Ἐπίκουρος ἐκάλει) D.L. 10.8, cf. Menodot. ap. Gal. Subf.Emp. 63.

2. wealthy, Palaeph. 31.4 (s. v. l.). [ χρῡσέη, χρῡσέην, χρῡσέου, χρῡσέῳ, etc., in Hom. must be pronounced as disyll., as is fully proved by such passages as Il. 1.15, 374: but Lyric Poets sts. used ῠ in χρύσεος, Pi. P. 3.73, 4.4, 144, al., B. 9.6, 15.2; so also Trag., but only in Lyr., not in Iambics or Anapaestics, S. OT 157, 188, Ant. 103, E. Med. 632, 978, IA 1051, IT 1253, Tr. 856, Ba. 372, Heracl. 916, HF 351, 396, El. 192; sts. also Epigrammatists, AP 6.292.2 (Hedyl.), 7.233.1 (Apollonid.), 13.18.4 (Parmeno), APl. 4.96.8.]