STEP Liddell–Scott–Jones: παῖς

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παῖς,

also παῦς (which see), παιδός, ὁ, ἡ, genitive plural παίδων, Doric dialect παιδῶν[[ Greg.Cor. p.317 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; dative plural παισί, Epic dialect παίδεσσι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.381, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; in early Epic dialect frequently disyllable in nominative πάϊς, e. g. when forming part of two different feet, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.609, 5.704, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; probably also in the fifth foot, [[ 9.57, 11.389 ] Refs]; and before bucolic diaeresis, [[ 2.205, +others] Refs]; also in Lyric poetry, [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 38, 85] Refs 7th c.BC+]; and in Boeotian dialect, [[ “IG” 7.690, +others (from Tanagra)] Refs], compare πῆ; πάϊ [ᾰῑ] [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.192 ] Refs 8th c.BC+] (παιδ- is never disyllable in oblique cases in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus); _accusative_ πάϊν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus R.4.697, “Anthologia Graeca” 3.8 (Inscription Cyzic.), 9.125] Refs 8th c.BC+]; genitive παϊδός epigram cited in [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Symp.” 41 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; dative παϊδί probably in [[ 6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 17: ] Refs 6th c.BC+]

__I in relation to Descent, child, whether son, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.205, 609, +others (with special reference to the father, opposed to τέκνον, which see): _plural_, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.4, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; or daughter, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.20, 443, 3.175; παῖδες ἄρρενες καὶ θήλειαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 788a ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; παῖς, opposed to κόρα, [[ “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.7 (_Locrian dialect_, 5th c.BC) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of an adopted son, ἀλλά σε παῖδα ποιεύμην [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.494; παίδων παῖδες, τοί κεν μετόπισθε γένωνται 20.308, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.100, “Inscription Cyprian dialect” 135.11 H., etc.; Ἀγήνορος παῖδες ἐκ παίδων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 281 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; frequently in orators of legal issue, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 19.9, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 7.31, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of animals, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 50 (_anapaest meter_). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]

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__II in relation to Age, child, boy or girl, νέος π. [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.665; παῖδες νεαροί 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.289; σμίκρα π. 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 34: with another ] Refs 8th c.BC+] substantive, π. συφορβός boy-swineherd, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.282; παῖδα κόρην γαμεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 595; ἐν παισὶ νέοισι π. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.72; π. ἔτ᾽ ὤν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 755, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.710; ἔτι π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 310e; παιδὸς μηδὲν βελτίων [prev. work] 342e: distinguished from παιδίον, μειράκιον, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἑβδομάδων - Die Hippokratische Schrift von der Siebenzahl” 5, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.17, “Cyr.” 8.7.6, 1.2.4 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐκ παιδός from a child, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 374c; ἐκ παιδὸς εἰς γῆρας 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.180; ἐκ τῶν παίδων εὐθύς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 694d, compare “R.” 386a; ἀκούων τῶν παίδων εὐθύς [prev. author] “Lg.” 642b; εὐθὺς ἐκ παίδων ἐξελθών 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.154 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡλικίαν ἔχειν τὴν ἄρτι ἐκ π. to be just out of one's childhood, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.25; ἐκ μικρῶν π. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1336a14; [Ἡρακλῆς] ἐν παισὶν ὄφεις ἀπέκτεινεν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 56.36 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν παισὶ (variant{παιδὶ}) ποιμαίνων [[ 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 6.8.1 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; χορηγεῖν παισί [[compare (χορηγέω 11): proverbial, τοῦτο κἂν π. γνοίη 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 279d; δῆλον τοῦτό γε ἤδη καὶ παιδί [prev. author] “Smp.” 204b; παῖδας [τοὺς πρὸ αὐτοῦ] ἀπέφηνε 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Peregr.” 11, compare “Alex.” 4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔνι τις καὶ ἐν ἡμῖν π., of the superstitious fears of a child, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 77e, compare 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 1.41. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]