STEP Liddell–Scott–Jones: παίζω

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Doric dialect παίσδω [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.42 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: Laconian dialect present participle genitive plural feminine παιδδωἇν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1313 (Lyric poetry): ] Refs 5th c.BC+]future παιξοῦμαι Syrac. in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 9.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], παίξομαι [[ LXX.2Ki.6.21, “Anthologia Graeca” 12.46 (3rd c.BC: Asclepiades Epigrammaticus), παίξω [prev. work] 211 (2nd c.AD: Strato Epigrammaticus), “Anacreontea” 41.8] LXX+3rd c.BC+]: aorist 1 ἔπαισα [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (see. below), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1055, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect πέπαικα [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 923.3 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: perfect passive πέπαισμαι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.77 (variant{πέπλασται}), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 1227; _imperative_ πεπαίσθω 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 278d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: also aorist ἔπαιξα [[ 5th c.BC: Crates Comicus 23, 5th-6th c.BC: Ctesias Historicus “fragment” 29.59, LXX.Judg.16.25, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DDeor.” 6.4, etc.] LXX+5th c.BC+]: perfect πέπαιχα [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demosthenes” 9 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—passive, aorist ἐπαίχθην [[ [prev. author] 2.123f, 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 8.6 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]: perfect πέπαιγμαι [[ “epigram Gr.” 979.3 (from Philae)] Refs]; infinitive πεπαῖχθαι Timarch. cited in [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 11.501f; _imperative_ πεπαίχθω 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.106 K., Fronto “Epig.Gr.” 5.86: 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] uses only present and imperfect, and (in [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.251) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]aorist imperative παίσατ; Trag. only present: (παῖς):—properly, play like a child, sport, τῇ δέ θ᾽ ἅμα Νύμφαι.. ἀγρονόμοι παίζουσι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.106, compare 7.291 (never in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.114, etc.: _metaphorically_, αἰὼν παῖς ἐστὶ παίζων 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 52. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]

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__II jest, sport, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.28, 5.4, 9.11 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to σπουδάζω, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.1.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to σπουδῇ λέγω, [[ [prev. author] “Cyr.” 8.3.47 ] Refs]; παίζετε ταῦτα λέγοντες (opposed to σπουδάζετε) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 283b; π. καὶ χλευάζειν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 376; π. καὶ γελᾶν 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 218.4; πῖνε, παῖζε 4th c.BC: Amphis Comicus 8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. πρός τινα make fun with a person, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 952, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 79a, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 198 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. εἴς τι play with a thing, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 89b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with adjective neuter, τοιαῦτα ἔπαιζον σπουδῇ πρὸς ἀλλήλους [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.6: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]participle παίζων is frequently absolutely, jestingly, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 145b, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to σπουδάζων, [[ [prev. author] “Lg.” 636c, +others:] Refs] —passive, ὁ λόγος πέπαισται has been made up as a jest (variant for{πέπλασται}), [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.77 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ταῦτα πεπαίσθω ὑμῖν enough of jest, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 278d, compare “Phdr.” 278b, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus [same place] ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πεπαῖχθαι τὴν λέξιν Timarch. [same place]; τοῦτο τὸ παιζόμενον 'as the joke is', [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1090f; τὸ Μενεδήμῳ πεπαιγμένον [prev. work]81e; but οἷα πέπαιγμαι, in _active_ sense, “epigram Gr.” 979.3 (from Philae). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]