A.time, Hom. (v. infr.), etc.: dist. fr. καιρός, D.59.35, cf. Ammon.Diff.p.79 V.; τῶν δὲ πεπραγμένων ἀποίητον οὐδ᾽ ἂν χ. δύναιτο θέμεν τέλος P.O.2.17; “μυρίος χ.” Id.I.5(4).28, S.OC618; “μακρὸς κἀναρίθμητος χ.” Id.Aj.646; “ὁ πᾶς χ.” Pi.P.1.46, cf. A.Eu.484; πρόπας χ. ib.898; ἐς τὸ πᾶν χρόνου ib.670; but in Prose, “τοῦ χ. τὸν πλεῖστον” Th.1.30, cf. Isoc.9.41; “τὸν πρῶτον τοῦ χ.” X.Lac.1.5; “τὸν δι᾽ αἰῶνος χ.” A.Ag.554; χρόνου πολλοῦ δέονται take a long time, X. Smp.2.4, etc.; “δότε τι τῷ χ.” Antipho 5.86.
b. time in the abstract, ἀμερὴς χ. Timo 76; “τριμερής” S.E.M.10.197, cf. Plu.2.153b; defined by Zeno Stoic.1.26, Apollod. ib.3.260.
2. a definite time, period, δεκέτης, τρίμηνος, S.Ph.715 (lyr.), Tr.164; χ. βίου, ἥβης χ., E.Alc. 670, El.20; “πολὺν ἀριθμὸν χρόνου γεγονότες” Aeschin.1.49: pl., of points or periods of time, τοῖς χ. ἀκριβῶς with chronological accuracy, Th.1.97; τοῖς χ. by the dates, Isoc.11.36; μετενεγκόντα τοὺς χ. altering the dates, D.18.225; “μακρῶν καὶ πολλῶν χρόνων” Pl.Lg.798b; “τεσσαράκοντα χρόνους ἐνιαυτῶν” IG5(1).728.7 (Sparta), cf. 14.1747.3 (Rome); χρόνων μῆκος (dub., leg. χρόνου) Chor.35.51 p.403 F.-R.
b. date, term of payment due, Leg.Gort.1.10, al.
c. year, “Ἑλληνικά” 1.233 (Rhamnus, i B. C.), PLond.2.417.14 (iv A. D.), App.Anth.6.154.1 (leg. εἷς ἔτι), Ps.-Ptol.Centil.24, cf. EM 254.13.
3. Special phrases:
a. acc., χρόνον for a while, for a long or short time, Od.4.599, 6.295, Hdt.1.175, 7.223, etc.; πολὺν χρόνον for a long time, Od.11.161; “δηρὸν χ.” Il.14.206; “οὐκ ὀλίγον χ.” 19.157; “τοῦτον τὸν χ.” Hdt.1.75; ἐς τὸν αἰὲν χ. for ever, E.Or.207 (lyr.); οὐ πολὺς χ. ἐξ οὗ . . Pl.R. 452c; “παλαιὸς ἀφ᾽ οὗ χρόνος” S.Aj.600 (lyr.); ἦν χρόνος ἐν ᾧ . . , or ὅτε . . , Linusap.D.L.Prooem.4, Critias 25.1 D.; “ἕνα χ.” once for all, Il.15.511.
b. gen., χρόνου περιιόντος as time came round, Hdt. 4.155; so χ. ἐπιγενομένου, διεξελθόντος, προβαίνοντος, Id.1.28, 2.52, 3.53; χρόνου γενομένου after a time, D.S.20.109; ὀλίγου χρόνου in a short time, Hdt.3.134; “πολλοῦ . . οὐχ ἑόρακά πω χρόνου” Ar. Pl.98; οὐ μακροῦ χ., τοῦ λοιποῦ χ., S.El.478 (lyr.), 817; “βαιοῦ κοὐχὶ μυρίου χ.” Id.OC397; “ποίου χρόνου;” A.Ag.278; πόσου χ.; after how long? Ar.Ach.83.
c. dat., “χρόνῳ” in process of time, Xenoph.18, Hdt.1.80, 176, al.: freq. in Trag., as A.Ag.126,463, Ch.650 (all lyr.); also “χρόνῳ κοτέ” Hdt.9.62; “τῷ χ. ποτέ” Ar.Nu.865; χρόνῳ, χρόνοις ὕστερον, long after, Th.1.8, Lys.3.39; οὐ χρόνῳ immediately, Ps.Democr.Alch.p.49B.: also c. Art., “τῷ χ.” Ar.Nu.66, 1242.
d. ὁ ἄλλος χ., in Att., of past time, D.20.16, ὁ λοιπὸς χ., of future, v. λοιπός 3; so χ. ἐφέρπων, ἐπαντέλλων, μέλλων, Pi.O.6.97, 8.28, 10(11).7; also κατὰ χ. ἱκνούμενον or κατὰ χ. <τὸν> ἱ. at a later (or the fitting) time, Ant.Lib.27.4 (cf. “ἱκνέομαι” 111.2).
b. ἀφ᾽ οὗ χρόνου from such time as . . , X.Cyr.1.2.13.
c. διὰ χρόνου after a time, after an interval, S.Ph.758, Ar.Lys.904, Pl.1055, Th.2.94; “διὰ χρόνου πολλοῦ” Hdt.3.27; “διὰ π. χ.” Ar.V.1476; “διὰ μακρῶν χρόνων” Pl.Ti.22d: but χρόνος . . διὰ χρόνου προὔβαινέ μοι means one space of time after another, day after day, S.Ph.285.
e. ἐν χρόνῳ, like χρόνῳ, in course of time, at length, A.Eu.1000 (lyr.); for a long time, Pl.Phdr.278d; ἐν πολλῷ χρόνῳ ib.228a; ἐν χρόνοισι perh. formerly, [Emp.]Sphaer.108 (leg. Κάρπιμος).
g. ἐπὶ χρόνον for a time, for a while, Il.2.299, Od.14.193, Hdt.1.116; “πολλὸν ἐπὶ χ.” Od.12.407; “χρόνον ἐπὶ μακρόν” Hdt.1.81; παυρίδιον or παῦρον ἐπὶ χ., Hes.Op.133, 326.
m. ὑπὸ χρόνου by lapse of time, Th. 1.21: but ὑπὸ αὐτὸν τὸν χ. about the same time, Hdt.7.165, cf. Th.1.100 (pl.).
II. lifetime, age, “ὁ μακρὸς ἀνθρώπων χρόνος” S.Ph. 306; “χρόνῳ παλαιοί” Id.OC112; χρόνῳ μείων ib.374; τοσόσδε τῷ χ. so far gone in years, Pl.Ax.365b; “χρόνῳ βραδύς” S.OC875.
III. season or portion of the year, “περιγράψαι τοῦ ἔτους χρόνον” X.Mem.1.4.12.
IV. delay, οὐδ᾽ ἐποίησαν (fort. ἐνεποίησαν)“ χ. οὐδένα” D.19.163; “χρόνον δ᾽ αἱ νύκτες ἔχοντι” linger, Theoc.21.25; χρόνους ἐμποιεῖν to interpose delays, D.23.93.
V. Gramm.,
2. time or quantity of a syllable, Longin.39.4, A.D.Synt.130.4, al.: βραχὺς χ. a short syllable, ib.309.23; of the augment, ib.237.10.
3. in Rhythmic and Music, time, “διαιρεῖται ὁ χ. ὑπὸ τῶν ῥυθμιζομένων” Aristox.Rhyth.p.79 W., etc.; ὁ πρῶτος [χ.] time-unit, ibid., Aristid. Quint.1.14, etc.; χρόνος κενός ib.18: freq. in pl., “λέξις εἰς χρόνους τεθεῖσα διαφέροντας” Aristox.Rhyth.p.77 W., cf. Anon.Rhythm.Oxy. 9ii6; [“μέτρα] προχωρεῖ ἕως λ́ χρόνων” Aristid.Quint.1.23.