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χάρμα , ατος, τό, (χαίρω):
I. in concrete sense, source of joy, delight, χ. γενέσθαι or ἔσσεσθαί τινι, Il.17.636, 23.342; “χ. φίλοις” Thgn.692; “χ. μεῖζον ἐλπίδος κλύειν” A.Ag.266, cf. S.Fr.636.1; “μᾶζαν, ἣν . . Δηὼ βροτοῖσι χ. δωρεῖται” Antiph.1; of victory in the games, “ἄπονον ἔλαβον χ.” Pi.O.10 (11).22; “καλλίνικον χ.” Id.I.5 (4). 54: freq. in pl., Od.6.185; “μὴ γείτοσι χάρματα γήμῃς” Hes.Op.701, cf. Max.87 (sg.); χάρματ᾽ Ἐρινύος, χάρματα θηρῶν, E.Ph.1503, Supp.282 (both lyr.); χάρματ᾽ ἄλλοις ἔθηκεν, ἐμβαλεῖν χ. ἀνθρώποισι, Pi.O.2.99, 7.44; “ἀντιδιδόναι” A.Eu.984 (lyr.).
2. source of malignant joy, Il.3.51, 6.82, al.; “λυπρά, χάρματα δ᾽ ἐχθροῖς” A.Pers.1034 (lyr.).
II. in abstract sense, joy, delight, “τὴν δ᾽ ἅμα χ. καὶ ἄλγος ἕλε φρένα” Od.19.471, cf. h.Cer.371, Hes.Sc.400.—Poet. and late Prose, Plu.Mar.46.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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