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receive what is oneʼs due, μισθόν Hdt. 8.137; ἀ. τὸν ὀφειλόμενον μισθόν X. An. 7.7.14; τὴν σὴν ξυνάορον E. Or. 654; τὰ χρήματα Ar. Nu. 1274; τὰ παρὰ τοῦ πατρός Antiph. 196; ἀ. χρέα have them paid, And. 3.15; ὑπόσχεσιν παρά τινος ἀ. X. Smp. 3.3; τὰ δίκαια Aeschin. 1.196: opp. λαμβάνω, Epist. Phil. ap. D. 12.14, cf. D. 7.5; ἀ. ὅρκους accept them when tendered, Id. 5.9, 18.27.
land held in a country by a person not belonging to it, And. 3.15, D. 7.42, IG 2(2).43.27, App. Mith. 47.
war down, i.e. exhaust by war, reduce, τὴν Πελοπόννησον Th. 2.7, cf. 4.1, And. 3.15, X. HG 7.1.10: pres., attempt to subdue, ἐγκλήμασι Th. 4.86:— Pass., ἐλπίζοντες αὐτὴν [ τὴν πόλιν] καταπεπολεμῆσθαι Id. 6.16, cf. Pl. Mx. 243c, 243d.
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that which one needs must pay, obligation, debt, Ἄρης . . χρέος καὶ δεσμὸν ἀλύξας Od. 8.353, cf. 355; χρεῖος ἀποστήσασθαι, i.e. pay it in full, Il. 13.746: esp. of the obligation to restore or pay for ‘lifted’ cattle and plunder, so the heralds of the Pylians summoned to share in booty all οἷσι χρεῖος ὀφείλετʼ· . . πολέσιν γὰρ Ἐπειοὶ χρεῖος ὄφειλον (where Sch. A, τὰ περιελασθέντα ἐκ τῆς Πύλου ὑπὸ τῶν Ἐπειῶν θρέμματα χρέως καλεῖ) Il. 11.686, cf. Od. 3.367, 21.17; later simply, debt, αὐτὸς ἔτεισε . . χρέος Thgn. 205; ἀρᾶς τίνει χ. pays the debt demanded by the curse, A. Ag. 457 (lyr.); μή τι πέρα χρέος . . πόλει προσάψῃς debt, i.e. guilt, S. OC 235 (lyr.); χ. πράσσειν τινά exact payment of a debt from one, Pi. O. 3.7; ἐμὸν καταίσχυνε χ. dishonoured my debt, i.e. dishonoured me for not paying my debt, for not keeping my promise, ib. 10(11).8; τεὸν χ. the debt due to thee, Id. P. 8.33: in Com. and Prose, χ. ἀποδιδόναι repay a debt, Hdt. 2.136 (where also we have χ. διδόναι to give a loan, and χ. λαμβάνειν to receive a loan), cf. Ar. Nu. 117, Pl. Plt. 267a; ἔχω χ. ὡς εἰπεῖν οὐδὲν ἀνδρὸς Ἕλληνος I know of nothing that I owe to any man of Greece, Hdt. 3.140; χ. ἀπαιτεῖν Plu. Oth. 2; τὰ ὑπάρχοντα τῶν χ. ἀνεῖσθαι Id. Sol. 15; τὸ ἐπὶ τὴν τράπεζαν χρέως (sc. ὀφειλόμενον) D. 33.24; ὢ καλὸν εἰς ἄλοχον θέμενος χ., like χάριν θέσθαι (v. τίθημι A. II.7 fin.), Epigr. in Arch.Pap. 1.220 ( Ptolemaic); ἔχειν εἴς τι χ. Plu. Caes. 48: pl., debts, Hes. Op. 647, Ar. Nu. 13, etc.; χρειῶν λύσις Hes. Op. 404; χρέα ἀπολαβεῖν And. 3.15; χρέα ἐπὶ τόκοις ὀφειλόμενα Is. 11.42; τὴν οὐσίαν ἅπασαν χρέα κατέλιπον left all the property in outstanding debts, D. 38.7; εἰσπραχθέντα χρέα ibid.; ἐκπληρῶσαι τὸ χ. ἅπαν pay it, Pl. Lg. 958b; τὸ χ. διαλυέτω SIG 306.46 ( Tegea, iv B. C.), cf. Plu. Luc. 20 ( Pass.); πρὸς τὰ χ. ἀπάγεσθαι Plb. 38.11.10, D.H. 4.9:—cf. ἀποκοπή.