χρόν-ιος (chronios)

Where it lives

Ion 6 · 6.56/10k
Helen 6 · 6.13/10k
Orestes 5 · 5.1/10k
Electra 3 · 3.97/10k
Philoctetes 3 · 3.41/10k
Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

χρόν-ιος · chron-ios — LSJ

after a long time, late, after a long time

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

long-delaying, tardy, Δίκα E. Fr. 223 (lyr.); χ. τὰ τῶν θεῶν Id. Ion 1615 (troch.).

2 for a long time, a long while

for a long time, a long while, χρόνιόν τινα ἐκβεβληκότες, ἤλαυνε, S. Ph. 600, OC 441; μή . . χρόνιοι μέλλετε πράσσειν Id. Ph. 1449 (anap.); χρόνιος ὤν, ἀπών, E. Or. 485, IA 1099; χρόνιός εἴμʼ ἀπʼ ἀνθρώπων βορᾶς Id. Cyc. 249.

3 long-continued, long, perennial

long-continued, ἀρετὰ χρονία τελέθει Pi. P. 3.115; ἄπλοιαι A. Ag. 149 (lyr.); χρόνια λέκτρʼ 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. HP 1.1.9.

4 chronic

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. GC 328a35, 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. I.3 and 5.

In the wild

χρονίας · chronias Aeschylus, Agamemnon 140–152
χρονίᾳ · chroniai Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 705–707
χρόνιος · chronios Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1157b (DIORISIS sentence 2754)
χρονιωτέρας · chroniōteras Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1175b (DIORISIS sentence 3611)
χρόνιος · chronios Aristotle, Politics 1320a (DIORISIS sentence 2384)
χρόνιος · chronios Aristotle, Rhetoric 1

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