Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“χαρίϝεττα” Mon.Piot2.138 (statuette from Thebes, vii/vi B. C.), χαρίεν (for χάριεν, v. infr. iv): gen. χαρίεντος, dat. -εντι: voc. χαρίει, χαρίεν, acc. to Theodos. Can.1.11, 209 H.: (χάρις):—graceful, beautiful:

I. in Hom. freq. of the works of men, [“πέπλος] χαριέστατος” Il.6.90,271; “εἵματα” 5.905; “ἔργα” Od. 10.223; “φᾶρος” 5.231; also, gracious, “ἀμοιβή” 3.58; “ἀοιδή” 24.197; “τέλος χαριέστερον” 9.5; δῶρα χ. acceptable gifts, Il.8.204, Ar.Pl.849; “οὐ πάντεσσι θεοὶ χαρίεντα διδοῦσιν” Od.8.167; “εἴ ποτέ τοι χαρίεντ᾽ ἐπὶ νηὸν ἔρεψα” Il.1.39; of the parts of a person, χ. μέτωπον, πρόσωπον, κάρη, 16.798, 18.24, 22.403; “μέλεα” Archil.12; of a youth, “πρῶτον ὑπηνήτῃ, τοῦπερ χαριεστάτη ἥβη” Il.24.348 (also “-έστατος ἥβη” Od.10.279); of persons first in Hes.Th.247; χαρίεσσα δέμας ib.260; “ὦ κάλα, ὦ χαρίεσσα” Sapph. η_ 5 App.p.48 Lobel, cf. Alc.46; “φυὴν χαριέστερος” Tyrt.12.5; “σοὶ χάριεν μὲν εἶδος” Sapph. η_ 9 App.p.49 Lobel; once in Trag., “σὰν χαρίεσσαν ὥραν” E.Fr.453.6 (lyr.); also “χαρίεσσα χελιδοῖ” Anacr.67: later “ζῷα ὀφθῆναι χαρίεντα” Luc.Prom.Es3.

II. in Att., freq. of persons, in relation to qualities of mind, elegant, accomplished, “χ. ἦσαν οἱ Λακωνικοί” Ar.Lys.1226; “οἱ χαριέστατοι” men of taste, Isoc.12.8, Arist.Metaph.1060a25, cf. Pl.R.605b (Comp.); “οἱ χ.” Arist.Pol.1297b9, Phld.Mort.31; opp. οἱ πολλοὶ καὶ φορτικώτατοι, Arist.EN1095b22, cf. Pol.1267a1; τὰ τῶν χ. σκώμματα the wits, Pl.R.452b; “χ. καὶ νοῦν ἔχοντες” Arist.Pol.1320b7; χαριέστατος τὴν μουσικήν accomplished in . . , Pl.La.180d; “περὶ φιλοσοφίαν” Id.Ep. 363c; “χ. ποιητής” Id.Lg.680c; “τῶν ἰατρῶν οἱ χ.” Arist.EN1102a21; “στρατηγοί” D.S.12.33 (Sup.); γεωργός, παιδαγωγός, etc., Plu.2.92b, Cat.Mi.1, etc.

2. of things, graceful, elegant, μέλος, πόνος, Pi.P.5.107, N.3.12, cf. Ar.Pl.145; “φιλοσοφία ἐστὶν χαρίεν” Pl.Grg.484c, cf. Sph.234b (Comp.); “χαρίεντα μὲν γὰρ ᾁδω, χ. δ᾽ οἶδα λέξαι” Anacr.45; “λόγον λέξαι χαρίεντα” Ar.V.1400; “βοήθειαι χαριέσταται πρός τι” Pl.R.602d; “ἐνθύμημα χ.” clever, smart, X.An.3.5.12; “τὸ ἀστεῖον καὶ χ.” Luc.VH1.2; “χαρίεντα . . ἐσοφίσω καὶ σοφά” Ar.Av.1401; ironical, χαρίεντα πάθοιμ᾽ ἄν I should be nicely off, Id.Ec.794; χαρίεν [ἐστὶ] εἰδέναι it is well to know, Hp.Art.34; “χ. οὖν . . λαλεῖν” Ar. Ra.1491 (lyr.); “δοκεῖ χαριέστερον εἶναι . . λέγειν” Pl.Prt.320c; also χαρίεν γάρ, εἰ . . it would be a pretty thing, if . . ! X.Cyr.1.4.13, Luc. JTr.26.

3. rarely of natural objects, “θεῶν χ. ἐναύλους” Hes. Th. 129; “χαρίεντα τὰ ὑδάτια φαίνεται” Pl.Phdr.229b; πηγὴ χαριεστάτη ib.230b; “τὴν Ἰνδῶν λίθον χ.” Jul.Or.2.51a.

4. name of a plant, “χαρίεν τὸ ἐπονομαζόμενον, τούτου ῥίζαν πρόσθες” Hp.Mul.1.78.

III. Adv. χαριέντως gracefully, elegantly, cleverly; “πάνυ χ. ἀποδεδεῖχθαι” Pl.Phd.87a, cf. Plt.300b; “χ. ἔχων τὸ σῶμα” in fine condition, Id.Phd. 80c; “δείπνου χ. πεπρυτανευμένου” Alex.110.4; “χ. εἰπεῖν” Pl.R.331a: Comp., “ἀνθηρότερον καὶ -έστερον τῶν ἄλλων λέγειν” Isoc. 13.18; “οἱ -εστέρως λέγοντες” Arist.Metaph.1075a26.

2. kindly, courteously, Isoc.5.22.

3. with good intention, “χ. μέν, ἀπειροτέρως δὲ ἐπαινεῖν” Id.12.37.

IV. the neut., as Adv., was written proparox. χάριεν in Att., acc. to Hdn.Gr.1.350, A.D.Adv.160.22, etc., but no example is quoted; neut. as Adj. is proparox. acc. to Suid.