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χρήστ-ης (written χρείστης SIG364.40 (Ephes., iii B. C.)), ου, ὁ: gen. pl. χρήστων (not χρηστῶν, to distinguish it from the gen. pl. of χρηστός, Hdn.Gr.1.425): (χράω (B) A):—
A.one who gives or expounds oracles, prophet, soothsayer, Hsch., prob. in Milet.7p.50 (Didyma, i B. C.).
II. (κίχρημι) creditor, usurer, Ps.-Phoc.83, Ar.Nu. 240, 434(anap.), Lys.32.29, Lycurg.22, etc.
2. (χράομαι, κίχραμαι) debtor, Phoc.16, D.30.12, 32.12, IPE12.32B84 (Olbia, iii B. C.), cf. Harp. s. v.: c. gen., “κακοῦ ἀνδρός” Phoc. l.c.; “χρημάτων” D.36.6.
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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