LogeionPerseus analysis of χραίσμωσιν:
χραισμέω (ward off): aor subj act 3rd pl (epic)
LSJ entry
χραισμέω
χραισμέω,
Ep. Verb (not in Od. or Hes.),
pres. only in Nic. Th. 914:
fut. 3
sg. χραισμήσει Il. 20.296,
Ep. inf. -ησέμεν 21.316:
aor. 1
Ep. 3
sg. χραίσμησε 16.837;
inf. χραισμῆσαι 11.120:
used by Hom. most freq. in aor. 2, 3
sg. ἔχραισμε 14.66,
Ep. χραῖσμε 5.53,
7.144;
subj. 3
sg. χραίσμῃ, χραίσμῃσι, 1.28,
11.387; 3
pl. χραίσμωσι 1.566;
inf. χραισμεῖν ib.242,
al.:—2. more freq. c. dat. pers. only, defend, succour (though the notion of warding off injury is always implied), freq. in Il., 1.28,
5.53,
al.: c. neut. Adj.,
χραισμεῖν τι assist, avail at all, 1.242,
21.193,
al.; abs., 14.66,
15.652.—
Hom. uses χραισμεῖν with negs. expressed or implied (in Il. 21.193,
εἰ δύναταί τι χραισμεῖν is ironical for οὔτι χ. δύναται),
cf. 15.32.
In positive clauses first in A.R. 2.249,
al.; imper. χραίσμετε Id. 2.218.
(Said by Sch.A.R. 2.218 to belong to the dialect of the Clitorians in Arcadia.)