A.like χρήσιμος, useful, good of its kind, serviceable, “[τόξα] χρηστὰ οὐδέν” Hdt.3.78; [“ἀτραπὸς] οὐδὲν χ. τισι” Id.7.215; “χ. ἐπίπλοα” Id.1.94; [γῆ] E.Hec.594; οἰκία, opp. μοχθηρά, Pl.Grg.504a; ἡ χ. μέλιττα, opp. οἱ κηφῆνες, Arist.HA 624b23: freq. of wholesome food, “μελίτωμα” Batr.39; ποτόν, σῖτος, Pl.R.438a; “περὶ τὸ σῶμα” Pl.Prt.313d: c. gen., for a thing, νεύρων for the sinews, Ael.NA14.21; “ῥάφανος” Alex.15.8; “ὄψον” Antiph.242, etc. (but pleasant to taste, nice, Thphr.Char.2.10): generally, “πολιτεία” Isoc.12.135; “βίος” Aeschin.1.179; of victims and omens, auspicious, ἱρά, σφάγια, Hdt.5.44, 9.61,62; τελευτὴ χ. a happy end or issue, Id.7.157; “εἰ . . τοῦτό γε δοκέει ὑμῖν εἶναι χρηστόν” Id.5.92.ά: pl., τὰ χ., as Subst., benefits, kindnesses, Id.1.41, 42; “χρηστὰ φέρειν” Id.4.139; χρηστόν τι συμβουλεύειν, χρηστὰ ἐπιτηδεύειν, Ar.Nu.793, Antipho 3.3.9; χρηστὰ λέγειν, πράττειν, etc., Men. 725,787, etc.: but τὰ χ. also, happy event, “ἐκτελοῖτο δὴ τὰ χ.” A.Pers. 228 (troch.); prosperity, success, “τὰ χ. δ᾽ αὔθ᾽ ἕκαστ᾽ ἔχει φίλους” E.Hec.1227.
2. in moral sense, opp. κακός, Eup. in PSI11.1213.2; opp. πονηρός, Pl.Prt.313d; τὸ χ., opp. τὸ αἰσχρόν, S.Ph. 476; χρηστός, opp. λυπρός, E.Med.601: but λῦπαι χρησταί if working for good, Pl.Grg.499e.
II. of persons, good, esp. in war, valiant, true, Hdt.5.109, 6.13, S.Ph.437, etc.: generally, good, honest, worthy, Id.OT610; “οἰκέται” X.Oec.9.5; of women, “ἐρεῖ τις ὡς Κλυταιμνήστρα κακή: Ἄλκηστιν ἀντέθηκα χρηστήν” Eub. 117.11, cf. Men.Mon.634; of good citizens, useful, deserving, D.20.7: c. acc. cogn., “ἃ χρηστοὶ ἐγένεσθε” Th.3.64; “χ. περὶ τὴν πόλιν γεγενημένος” Lys.14.31; “χ. καὶ φιλόπολις” Ar.Pl.900; collectively, “ὀλίγον τὸ χ.” Id.Ra.783; but also ironically, “ὁ χ. οὑτοσί” Id.Nu. 8; “οἱ χ. πρέσβεις οὗτοι” D.18.30, cf. 89; “ἐκλελάκτικεν ὁ χ. ἡμῖν μοιχός” Men.16.
b. freq. on Epitaphs, IG3.3149,3155, al.
c. c. inf., “ὅσοι προβατεύειν χ.” Him.Or.14.32.
3. of the gods, propitious, merciful, bestowing health or wealth, “θεῶν χρηστῶν ἥκειν εὖ” Hdt.8.111, cf. M.Ant.9.11.
4. of men, good, kindly, “δούλῳ . . χ. γενόμενός ἐστι δεσπότης πατρίς” Antiph.265; “ὡς ἡδὺ δούλῳ δεσπότου χρηστοῦ τυχεῖν” Men.Mon.556, cf. Philem.227; “ὁ χ., ὡς ἔοικε, καὶ χρηστοὺς ποιεῖ” Men.203b, cf. Plu.Phoc.10; “χ. περί τινα” D.59.2; “ἐπί τινας” Ev.Luc.6.35; “εἰς ἀλλήλους” Ep.Eph.4.32.
b. sts. simple, silly, like εὐήθης, χρηστὸς εἶ ὅτι ἡγῇ . . , you're a nice fellow, to think that . . , Pl.Phdr.264b, cf. Tht.161a; “ὦ χρηστέ” D.18.318.
6. of the dead, whence χρηστὸν ποιεῖν = ἀποκτιννύναι, in a treaty between the Spartans and Tegea, Arist.Fr. 592.