II. colour, esp. of the skin or body, complexion, Hdt.2.32, 3.101, Hp. Aph.4.40, etc.; “χρῶμα ἀλλάξαι” E.Ph.1246, cf. Men.Epit.466; “μεθιστάναι τοῦ χρώματος” Ar.Eq.399 (lyr.); “τὸ χ. διακεκναις μένος” Id.Nu. 120; παντοδαπὰ ἠφίει χρώματα changed colour continually, Pl.Ly. 222b; χ. διαμένον an unchanging colour (of the face), Nicol.Com.1.28; so of animals, x.Cyn.4.7.
2. generally, colour, Gorg. ap. S.E.M. 7.85; defined by Zeno Stoic.1.26; χρώματα βάπτειν use pigments for dyeing, Pl.R.429e; ἐκ τῶν χρωμάτων καὶ σχημάτων θεωρεῖν, i.e. look to the outside only, ib.601a; “διὰ τῶν χ. ἀπεικάζειν” X.Mem.3.10.1; “χρώμασι καὶ σχήμασι μιμεῖσθαι” Arist.Po.1447a18; περὶ χρωμάτων, title of treatise by Arist.; “ἐναλείφειν τοῖς χ.” Id.GA743b24; “χρωμάτων κρᾶσις” Luc.Zeux.5; χρώματος ἔντριψις, of cosmetics, X. Cyr.1.3.2; “τοῖς ἐγχρίστοις εἰς τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς χρώμασιν” Arist.GA 747a10; of medicines, “φάρμακα χρώμασι καὶ ὀσμαῖς πεποικιλμένα” Pl. Cra.394a.
III. turmeric, Curcuma longa, used in dyeing, Thphr.Od.31.
IV. complexion, character of style in writing, χρώματα [λέξεως] (of τὸ στριφνόν, τὸ τυκνόν, etc.) D.H.Amm.2.2; “ποιητικῆς χρώματα” Phld.Mus.p.84K., cf. Hermog.Id.1.12.
2. metaph. in pl., ornaments, embellishments, “ἀλλοτρίοις χ. καὶ κόσμοις” Pl.Phdr.239d, cf. Grg.465b; also of style or language, D.H.Comp. 20; of Music, “γυμνωθέντα . . τῶν τῆς μουσικῆς χρωμάτων τὰ τῶν τοιητῶν” Pl.R.601b.
3. in Music, a modification of the simplest music: “τὰ μέλη μεταβολαῖς καὶ χρώμασιν ὡς εὖ κέκραται” Antiph.209.4; “χρώματα εὔχροα ἐκιθάρισε” Philoch.66:but esp.
b. chromatic scale or music, “οὔτε χρῶμα δειλοὺς οὔτε ἁρμονία ἀνδρείους ποιεῖ” Anon. in PHib.1.13.22, cf. Cleonid.Harm.3, Bacch.Harm.23, etc.: χ.μαλακόν, ἡμιόλιον, τονιαῖον, Cleonid.Harm.7.
4. Rhet., complexion, colourable pretence, Hermog.Stat.1,3(pl.), Arg.D.19<*>12.
V. of the factions in the Circus at Constantinople, Agath.5.14,21.