The corpus record

χέζω

chezo

ease oneself

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Where it lives

Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k

What it meant — LSJ

ease oneself, dropped

ease oneself, Ar. ll.cc., etc.: prov., εἰ μηδὲ χέσαι γε . . σχολὴ γενήσεται Stratt. 51; οὐκ ἔχεις ὅ[ποι χέσῃς] ὑπὸ τῶν ἀγαθῶν cj. in Men. 530.9, cf. Com.Adesp. 491; ἐλευθέρα Κόρκυρα· χέζʼ ὅπου θέλεις Str. 7Fr. 8: c. acc., χ. σησαμίδας Eup. 163 (lyr.):—Med. (for the sake of the pun), χέσαιτο γὰρ εἰ μαχέσαιτο Ar. Eq. 1057 (hex.):—Pass., πέλεθος ἀρτίως κεχεσμένος dung just dropped, Id. Ach. 1170. (Cf. Skt. hádati (same sense).)

In the wild

χέσῃʼ · chesēiʼ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 5.12.1 (DIORISIS sentence 620)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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