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

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A.goodness, honesty, uprightness, “χρηστότητα ἀσκεῖν” E.Supp.872; “μέγιστον ἀγαθόν ἐστι μετὰ νοῦ χ.” Men.788, cf. 472.1; χρηστότητος εἵνεκα as a reward for honesty, Aristopho 14.4 (troch.), Timocl.8.17; “ποιεῖν χ.” LXX Ps.13(14).3; ἀκολουθεῖ τῇ ἀρετῇ χ.) Arist.VV1251b33; ἡ σὴ χ., as a honorific address, PGiss.7.15 (ii A. D.), PLond.2.411.6 (iv A. D.), etc.

II. goodness of heart, kindness, Is.2.7 (but in depreciatory sense, soft-heartedness, Men. 579); “εὔνοιαν καὶ χ. παρέσχητο” Hdn.2.9.9; χ. καὶ φιλοστοργία, φιλανθρωπία καὶ χ., Plu.Agis17, Comp.Dem.Cic.3, cf. Luc.Tim.8, D.C. 73.5; “ἡ χ. καὶ ἡ φιλανθρωπία τοῦ θεοῦ” Ep.Tit.3.4, cf. Ep.Rom.11.22, al.; “χ. ἐθ᾽ ἡμᾶς” Ep.Eph.2.7; ποιεῖν χρηστότητα to show kindness, LXXPs.118(119).65; “πολλὰ τῇ χ. . . κτῶνται” Phld.Rh.1.262S.

2. simplicity, silly good nature, ἤθους ἀπλαστία μετ᾽ ἀλογιστίας, Pl.Def. 412e.

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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