πᾰλαιότης, ητος, ἡ,
age, π. καὶ πλῆθος ἐτῶν [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.42 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of seeds, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 7.1.6. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 more frequently antiquity, obsoleteness, π. γὰρ τῷ λόγῳ γ᾽ ἔνεστί τις [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1056; ὑπὸ παλαιότητος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 421d; εἴτε π. εἴτε σαπρότης [prev. author] “R.” 609e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. γράμματος, opposed to καινότης πνεύματος, [[ NT.Rom.7.6; in Lit. Crit., 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Ars Rhetorica” 10.19. ] NT+1st c.BC+]