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χρυ_σίον , τό, Dim. of χρυσός,
A.a piece of gold, generally, gold, Hdt. 3.95,97, Pl.Euthd.288e, R.336e, al.
2. anything made of gold, gold plate, ornaments of gold, etc., “ἄσημον” Th.2.13: pl., D.27.10, 48.55, Men.Sam.167, 1 Ep.Pet.3.3, Plu.Tim.15.
3. esp. gold coin, money, E. Cyc.161; “οὔτ᾽ ἀργύριον οὔτε χρυσίον” Ar.Eq.472, cf. Pl.808, Ra.720 (troch.), etc.; “χ. Ἀττικόν” IG22.1687.16; “λῆρος πάντα πρὸς τὸ χ.” Antiph.232.1; “ἐγὼ δ᾽ ὑπέλαβον χρησίμους εἶναι θεοὺς τἀργύριον καὶ τὸ χ.” Men.537.4 : but “στατῆρας χρυσίου” Eup.112; “χρυσία” pieces of gold, Pl.R.336e.
4. gold thread, Hp.Art.32.
II. as a term of endearment, my little treasure! Ar.Lys.930, cf. Ap11.232 (Callias Arg.).
2. = τὸ τῶν παιδίων αἰδοῖον, Hsch.
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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