πᾰλαιός, ά, όν,
Aeolic dialect πάλαος [[ 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 28.33, “epigram Gr.” 992 (from Balbilla)] Refs]; Boeotian dialect παληός [[ “Etymologicum Magnum” 32.6 ] Refs]; Laconian dialect παλεός (see. below): regular comparative and superlative παλαιότερος [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.53, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.1 codices, παλαιότατος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 83a, etc.: more frequently παλαίτερος, παλαίτατος (from πάλαι), 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.58, “N.” 7.44, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.4, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+] [The penultimate is sometimes short in Poets, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 956 (assuming variant), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 497, 1st c.AD: Damocrates Poeta Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.1049; παλεός γα ναὶ τὸν Κάστορα ἄνθρωπος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 988 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in these places παλεός (a form mentioned by Hdn.[[Gr. 2.909, compare 9th c.AD: Theognostus Grammaticus “Can.” 50.3, Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lys.” [same place], 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus, and corroborated by the Papyrus (4th c.BC) of Timotheus (see. παλεομίσημα, παλεονυμφάγονος)) may be retained or restored).]: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I old in years,
__I.1 mostly of persons, aged, ἢ νέος ἠὲ παλαιός [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.108; νέοι ἠδὲ παλαιοί 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.395, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 3p.59U.; παλαιῷ φωτὶ ἐοικώς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.136 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. γέρων, π. γρηῦς, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.432, 19.346, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 676; χρόνῳ π. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 112; ἐν παλαιτέροισι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.73; ἔνθα δὴ παλαίτατοι θάσσουσι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 68 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: in bad sense, a dotard (μωρός [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus, but σκώπτης 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 988. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]