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ἐκχράω (v. χράω c),
A.declare as an oracle, tell out, “τὰ πόλλ᾽ . . ὅτ᾽ ἐξέχρη κακά” S.OC87.
II. suffice, “οὐκ ἐξέχρησέ σφι ἡ ἡμέρα” Hdt.8.70: impers., c. inf., κῶς ταῦτα βασιλέϊ ἐκχρήσει περιυβρίσθαι; how will it suffice him, how will he be content to . . ? Id.3.137.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.137
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.70
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 87
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