A.“-ίσω” Ep.Rom.7.3, Att. χρημα^τ-ιῶ Lycurg.37: pf. “κεχρημάτικα” Din.1.103, OGI106.7 (Egypt, ii B. C.): (χρῆμα):—Prose Verb, negotiate, have dealings, esp. in money matters (in this sense mostly Med. (v. infr.11)), Th.1.87, 5.61, Plb.5.81.5; “χ. τι” Th.6.62, Isoc.4.157, Plu. Them.18.
2. of public assemblies, deliberate, “περὶ Εὐριπίδου ὅ τι χρὴ παθεῖν” Ar.Th.377, cf. Arist.Pol.1298b29, Rh.1359b3, Lexap.D.21.8; “τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν δημοσίων” Plu.Tim.38; “περὶ ὧν ἂν ἅπαξ γνῷ τὸ δικαστήριον, πάλινχρηματίσαι” D.24.55; of presiding officers, conduct business, Decr. ap. D.18.75, cf. Aeschin.1.23; of the βουλή, D.18.169; “ὅσα δεῖ χρηματίσαι τὴν βουλήν” Arist.Ath.43.3.
b. c. dat., transact business with, τῇ βουλῇ, τῷ δήμῳ, X.Ath.3.1; negotiate with, “πόλεσι περὶ φιλίας” Th.5.5: abs., ib.61; ἰδίᾳ χ., of intriguing persons, D.19.278; “χ. ὑπὲρ δημοσίων καὶ κοινῶν πραγμάτων” Ael.VH3.4:—Med.,X.Ath. 3.3.
4. of an oracle, give a response to those who consult it, LXX Je.33(26).2, al., D.S.15.10, JAJ11.8.4, Plu.2.435c, Porph. Abst.2.48; “δι᾽ ὕδατος” Iamb.Myst.3.11; of gods, give ear to, “χ. τοῖς εὐχομένοις” Luc.Pseudol.8:—Pass., receive an answer, warning, in NT of divine warnings or revelations, Ev.Matt.2.12, etc.; “ὑπ᾽ ἀγγέλου” Act.Ap.10.22; ἦν αὐτῷ κεχρηματισμένον a warning had been given him, Ev.Luc.2.26; “χ. ὑπὸ δαιμονίων καὶ φαντασίας εἰδώλων” Vett.Val.67.5.
5. issue ordinances, etc., “χ. ἀπορρήσεις” Ph.2.438; administer justice, ἐν τῷ Προσωπίτῃ OGI l.c.; “ταῖς πόλεσι” App.Hisp.98.
b. issue orders for payment, pay, “ἀπὸ τῆς . . τραπέζης” PGrenf.2.23.4 (ii B. C.); τιϝι Ostr.Bodl.i248 (ii B. C.); λόγον χ. ἐς τὰ δαμόσια γράμματα furnish an account . . , Arch. f. Religionswiss. 10.211 (Cos, ii B. C.):—Pass., ἐχρηματίσθη πολλὰ διάφορα he was furnished with large sums, Aristeas 9.
6. take cognizance of, decide upon petitions, [“ἐντευξιν] χ.” PEnteux.75.9 (iii B. C.), PFay. 12.28 (ii B. C.); “ἔντευξις κεχρηματισμένη” PPetr.2p.3 (iii B. C.).
7. generally, have dealings with, stand in any relation to a person, οὐδὲν αὐτῷ (sic legendum videtur) “πρὸς γένος ἐχρημάτιζεν” Ctes.Fr. 29.2: hence even μόλις ταῖς ἀναγκαίαις [ὀρέξεσι] χ. to be influenced, affected by them, Plu.2.125b.
8. Astrol., operate, of influences, Vett.Val.5.7.
II. Med., χρηματίζομαι: fut. Att. “-ιοῦμαι” Lys.29.14, etc.: pf. “κεχρημάτισμαι” Din.1.15:—negotiate or transact business for oneself or to one's own profit, make money, “οἰόμενοι χρηματιεῖσθαι μᾶλλον ἢ μαχεῖσθαι” Th.7.13; “χρηματιούμενος ἀλλ᾽ οὐ πρὸς ὑμᾶς φιλοτιμησόμενος” Lys. l.c.; “οἱ χρηματισάμενοι” Pl.R.330c; “ἄλλῳ χ. καὶ οὐχ αὑτῷ” Id.Grg.452e; esp. by base arts, “ἐξ αὐτῆς τῆς πόλεως” Din. l. c., cf. Is.9.25; χ. ἀπό τινος to make money of or from a thing, Pl. Sph.225e; “ἀπὸ τῶν κοινῶν” Arist.Pol.1286b14; “ἀπὸ γεωμετρίας” Iamb. Comm.Math.25; “ἔκ τινος” Lys.25.3; “ἐ, φιλοσοφίας” Isoc.11.1; also c. acc. cogn., “χ. τὸν ἐκ γῆς χρηματισμόν” Id.Lg.949e, cf. Grg.467d; “χρήματα” X.Cyr.3.3.5.
3. c. acc. rei, χ. τὸ νόμισμα traffic in money, like a money-lender or banker, Arist.Pol.1257b34; but c. acc. pers., χ. τινας make money out of any one, i. e. get it from them by extortion, Plb.32.5.13; so “χ. παρὰ τῶν νεωτέρων” Isoc.10.6.
III. in later writers, from Plb. downwards, the Act. χρηματίζω takes some special senses:
1. to take and bear a title or name, to be called or styled so and so, “χρηματίζειν βασιλεύς” Plb.5.57.2, 30.2.4, cf. Aristeas 298; “Πτολεμαῖος . . νέος Διόνυσος χ.” D.S.1.44; ἐχρημάτιζε Χαλκηδόνιος, Κρητικός, Str.13.1.55, App.Sic.6; “νέα Ἶσις ἐχρημάτιζε” Plu.Ant.54; μὴ πατρόθεν, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπὸ μητέρων χ. to call themselves not after their fathers, but after their mothers, Id.2.248d; “χ. ἀπὸ τοῦ δήμου” Harp. s.v. δημοτευόμενος; χ. τοὺς μαθητὰς Χριστιανούς Act.Ap. 11.26; τιμῆς καὶ πίστεως χ. ἄξιοι to be deemed . . , App.BC2.111.
