chreia

Note 132: This trope exemplifies the progymnasmata exercise of chreia. back

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

It is akin to chreia, a morally steeped reminiscence of a person.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Here, in a demonstration of rhetorical chreia (an edifying anecdote), the duke could pause to reflect on the virtue of religious devotion and its earthly counterpart, loyalty.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

* Pas ho apostolos erchomenos pros humas dechthētō hōs kurios; ou menei de ei mē hēmeran mian; ean de ē chreia, kai tēn allēn; treis de ean meinē, pseudoprophētēs estin; exerchomenos de ho apostolos mēden lambanetō ei mē arton heōs hou aulisthē; ean de argurion aitē, pseudoprophētēs estin:

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

Hom.iii. 71: hopote chreia tinos porou pros to anankaion genoito, hama hoi pantes sumballesthe (“Whenever any funds are needed, club together, all of you”).

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

Hospitality is to be exercised with the utmost frugality and moderation, and the charge to Martha in Luke x. 41, is quoted with the reading oligon de esti chreia e henos [548] and the interpretation

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

+Transliteration: Poiêsei hôs egômai tên polin hêmetera chreia.

Plato and Platonism Walter Pater 1866

There is need but of one thing -- henos de esti chreia.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

‘contrivers,’ douleia for douloi, basileiai for basileis, mainomena kedeumata for ganaika mainomenen; e chreia ton paidon in the sense of ‘indigent children,’ and paidon ikanotes; to ethos tes apeirias for e eiothuia apeiria; kuparitton upse te kai kalle thaumasia for kuparittoi mala upselai kai kalai.

Laws 2006

* hopote chreia tinos porou pros to anankaion genoito, hama hoi pantes sumballesthe: [977] 1

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908