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χρημα^τ-ιστικός , ή, όν,
A.of or for traffic and money-making, “ὁ χ.” a man of business, Pl.R.581d; opp. ἀναλωτικός, ib.558d; opp. στρατιωτικός, οἰκήσεις ib.415e; opp. “στρατηγικός, διατριβαί” Plu.Crass.17; χ. οἰωνός an omen portending gain, X.An.6.1.23; τὸ χ. the commercial class, opp. τὸ πολεμικόν, etc., Arist.Pol.1291b21; ἡ -κή (sc. τέχνη) the art of money-making, Pl. Grg.477e, Euthd. 307a, al.; on its varieties, v. Arist.Pol.1256b41.
II. belonging to or fitted for the dispatch of public business, χ. σκηνή, πυλών, a tent, hall for holding conferences, giving audience, Plb.5.81.5, 15.31.2.
2. notarial, “τράπεζα” PLond.3.1164d.4(iii A. D.).
III. oracular, prophetic, “ψυχή” Porph.Abst.4.10.
IV. Astrol., effective, operative, “τόποι” Vett.Val.29.18, Antioch.Astr. in Cat.Cod.Astr. 8(3).107; of stars Iamb.Myst.3.30.
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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    • Plato, Republic, 581d
    • Plato, Republic, 415e
    • Plato, Republic, 558d
    • Plato, Gorgias, 477e
    • Plato, Euthydemus, 307a
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 6.1.23
    • Polybius, Histories, 15.31.2
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.81.5
    • Plutarch, Crassus, 17
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