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χρόν-ιος , α, ον, also ος, ον E.Ion470 (lyr.), Andr.84, Th. 6.31:—
A.after a long time, late, “ἐλθὼν χρόνιος” Od.17.112; “χρονία μὲν ἥκεις” Cratin.222, cf. Ar.Th.912; “χ. φανείς” S.Ph.1446 (anap.); χρόνιος (v.l. χρόνιον）“ εἰσιδὼν φίλον” E.Or.475; “τροπαίᾳ χρονίᾳ” A.Th. 706(lyr.); “χρόνιοι ξυνιόντες” Th.1.141. Adv. “-ίως” after a long time, Sammelb.4314.2 (iii B.C.).
b. long-delaying, tardy, “Δίκα” E.Fr. 223(lyr.); “χ. τὰ τῶν θεῶν” Id.Ion1615 (troch.).
2. for a long time, a long while, χρόνιόν τινα ἐκβεβληκότες, ἤλαυνε, S.Ph.600, OC441; “μή . . χρόνιοι μέλλετε πράσσειν” Id.Ph.1449(anap.); χρόνιος ὤν, ἀπών, E.Or.485, IA1099; “χρόνιός εἴμ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ἀνθρώπων βορᾶς” Id.Cyc.249.
3. long-continued, “ἀρετὰ χρονία τελέθει” Pi.P.3.115; “ἄπλοιαι” A.Ag.149(lyr.); χρόνια λέκτρ᾽ ἔχων having been long married, E.Ph.14; “χ. ἐτῶν ἐνιαυτοί” Ar.Ra.347(lyr.); στόλος . . χ. ἐσόμενος, χρόνιος στρατεία, Th.6.31; “δεσμὰ χ.” Pl.Lg.855b; of plants, perennial, opp. ἐπέτειος, Thphr.HP1.1.9.
4. of ailments, chronic, “νοσήματα” Hp.Aph.2.39, Coac.203; [πόνοι] Epicur.Fr.447; “νόσοι” D.H. 1.37, Gal.6.356; “ἰσχιάς” Dsc.1.10; [βῆχες] Paul.Aeg.3.28（Comp.). Adv. “-ίως” Philum. ap. Orib.8.45 tit.: Comp. “-ιωτέρως” Hp.Coac. 197.
5. Astrol., χ. ζῴδια, f.l. for Κρονικά, Cat.Cod.Astr.1.133.
II. Adv. “-ίως” Arist.GC328a35, Thphr.Sud.22; neut. pl. χρόνια as Adv., E.Or.152(lyr.): Comp. “-ώτερον” Pi.N.4.6.—Rare in Prose, and only (as it seems) in signf. 1.3 and 5.
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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