παίω,
Boeotian dialect πήω Hdn.Gr.2.949; Attic dialect 2nd pers. singular imperative παῖ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.18 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] codices: future παίσω [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 688, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.2.19, παιήσω 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1125, “Lys.” 459 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἔπαισα [[ “Supp.epigram” 2.509.4, +others (Crete, 5th c.BC), 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 397, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.8.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect πέπαικα [[ LXX.Num.22.28, (ὑπερ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 1118, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 50.34 ] LXX+5th c.BC+]:—middle, imperfect ἐπαιόμην [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 24 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]: aorist ἐπαισάμην [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.3.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, aorist ἐπαίσθην [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 957, “Ch.” 184, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Salt.” 10: ] Refs 4th c.BC+]perfect πέπαισμαι (ἐμ-) [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 12.543f ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; but the passive tenses were mainly supplied by πλήσσω (παίσαντές τε καὶ πληγέντες [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 171)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; and ἐπάταξα (from πατάσσω) was generally used as aorist:—poet. Verb (not in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, rare in _Attic dialect_ Prose)] Refs 8th c.BC+], strike, smite, whether with the hand, or with a rod or other weapon, σκυτάλοισί τινας [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.137, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1384, etc.: frequently with _accusative_ omitted, παισθεὶς ἔπαισας [prev. author] “Th.” 957 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παῖε πᾶς strike home!, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 685 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παισάτω πᾶς (παῖς codices), παῖ δή, παῖ δή [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cyn.” [same place]; π. τινὰ ἐς τὴν γῆν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.107; π. τινὰ μάστιγι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 242 (Lyric poetry), etc.; π. ὑφ᾽ ἧπαρ αὑτήν [prev. author] “Ant.” 1315; παίσας πρὸς ἧπαρ φασγάνῳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1063; π. τινὰ ἐς τὴν γαστέρα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 549; εἰς τὰ στέρνα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.4; τινὰ ἐς πλευρὰν ξίφει 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 794; κατὰ τὸ στέρνον 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.8.26; κάρα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 308, compare “OT” 1270; τὸν νῶτόν τινος 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.43: with double _accusative_, π. ῥοπάλῳ τινὰ τὸ νῶτον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 497: with _accusative_ _cognate_, ὀλίγας π. (i.e. πληγάς) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.8.12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τί μ᾽ οὐκ ἀνταίαν ἔπαισέν τις (i.e. πληγήν) ; [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1309 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ἅλμην, of rowers, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 397, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1391:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —middle, ἐπαίσατο τὸν μηρόν he smote his thigh, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.3.6, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, παιομένους [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.47, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 416, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.4.4, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πὺξ παιόμενος, opposed to ἐγχειριδίῳ πληγείς, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 4.6. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]