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παύω,
[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.67, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: Ionic dialect imperfect παύεσκον [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.315, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 963 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: future παύσω [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.207, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect infinitive παυσέμεν (κατα-) [[ 7.36: ] Refs]aorist ἔπαυσα [[ 15.15, etc.] Refs], Epic dialect παῦσα [[ 17.602 ] Refs]: perfect πέπαυκα [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.70, 4th c.BC: Antisthenes Rhetor “Ὀδυσσεύς” 10 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—middle and passive, Ionic dialect imperfect παυέσκετο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.17 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: future παύσομαι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.198, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.56, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1040, “Ph.” 1424, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 93, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πεπαύσομαι only [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 91, “Tr.” 587 (though held to be the true _Attic dialect_ form by Moer. p.293 P.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παυσθήσομαι (variant παυθ-) [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.81 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; later παήσομαι (ἀνα-) [[ NT.Rev.14.13 ] NT]: aorist ἐπαυσάμην [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.260 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐπαύθην, Epic dialect παύθην, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 533, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.91 (variant{παυσθῇ})] Refs 8th c.BC+], etc.; ἐπαύσθην [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.94, etc.; later ἐπάην 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 2.141 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] H.: perfect πέπαυμαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.125, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 615, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.84, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 29, etc. (πεπάσθαι is _falsa lectio_ in Vett. Val. 359.31): ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __I.1 with accusative only, bring to an end, check, sometimes of persons, ἵνα παύσομεν ἄγριον ἄνδρα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.314, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 963 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 330 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; stop or silence by death, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.274, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 397 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive and middle, take one's rest, ἐνὶ κλισίῃ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.17, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.52, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; cease, have done, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.295, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.103, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of one singing or speaking, [[ 17.359, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.8.δ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: generally, middle denotes willing, passive forced, cessation.
__I.1.b mostly of things, make an end of, stop, abate, χόλον, μένος, νεῖκος πολέμοιο, ῥόον, ὀδύνας, etc., [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.67, 1.282, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.543, 5.451, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.528, etc.; μέριμναν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).13 (assuming variant) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; λύπας ᾠδαῖς π. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 197 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; π. τόξον let the bow rest, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.279; π. τοὺς γάμους 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 575; πόντου σάλον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1242 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. τὸν νόμον annul it, [[ [prev. author] “Or.” 571 ] Refs]; π. τὸν λόγον close it, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.6.7; τυραννίδα καταλύσαντα πεπαυκέναι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.70 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τείχη raze them, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 69.9 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.91, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 with accusative person et genitive of things, hinder, keep back, or give one rest, from a thing, π. Ἕκτορα μάχης, πόνοιο Ἀχιλῆα, Θάμυριν ἀοιδῆς, Πηνελόπειαν κλαυθμοῖο, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.15, 21.137, 2.595, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.801 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. τινὰ ἀλκῆς, ἄλης, καμάτοιο, ὀδυνάων, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.250, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.342, 5.492, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.191; so π. χεῖρας πολέμοιο 21.294; ὀρχηθμοῖο πόδας 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.298; π. τινὰ τῆς βοῆς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 798; τῆς ὕβρεως 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1259; τῆς λυγγός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 185d ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τῆς ἁμαρτίας καὶ ἀμα θίας [[ [prev. author] “Lg.” 784c; τῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [τῆς νόσου] [[ “IG” 42(1).121.71 (Epid., 4th c.BC) ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; π. τινὰ τῆς βασιληΐης depose one from being king, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.123 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τινὰ τῆς ἀρχῆς, τῆς στρατηγίας, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.6.3, “HG” 6.2.13; τῆς ἔξω ξυμμαχίας τινάς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.65; also π. τινὰ ἐκ κακῶν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 987; τινὰ ἀπὸ παιδαγωγῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 3.1; with _accusative_ unexpressed, αἴ κέ ποθι Ζεὺς.. παύσῃ ὀϊζύος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.35; φάρμαχ᾽ ἅ κεν παύσῃσι.. ὀδυνάων 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.191 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive and middle, rest or cease from a thing, πολέμοιο, μάχης, ἔργων, πόνου, γόοιο, κλαυθμοῦ, ὀδυνάων, κλαγγῆς, etc., [[ 21.432, 467, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.683, 24.384, 9.540, 17.7, 4.812, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.100, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τῆς μάχης, τοῦ δρόμου, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.74, 4.124; γόων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1211; τῆς ὀργῆς 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.6; φιλανθρώπου τρόπου 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 11 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παύεσθαι ἀρχῆς to be deposed from, or reach the term of, office, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.56, compare 6.66, “IG” 12.114.46; ἐκ μεγάλων ἀχέων παυσαίμεθ᾽ ἄν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1531 (Lyric poetry); ἐκ τρόχων πεπαυμένοι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 46, compare “El.” 1108. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.3 with present participle, stop a person from.., π. τινὰ ἀριστεύοντα stop him from doing bravely, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.506; τὸν ἄνδρα παῦσον ταῦτα ποιεῦντα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.23 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; γελῶντας ἐχθροὺς π. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1295; παύσω δέ σ᾽ ὄντ᾽ ἄπαιδα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 717 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive and middle, leave off doing.., ὅθ᾽ ὕπνος ἕλοι, παύσαιτό τε νηπιαχεύων when he stopped playing, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.502, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 615, “Ag.” 1047, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.133, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of things, ἄνεμος μὲν ἐπαύσατο.. θύων [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.400: the ] Refs 8th c.BC+]participle is frequently to be supplied, αἷμα, φλόξ, ἄνεμος ἐπαύσατο, the blood stopped [flowing], the fire [burning], the wind [blowing], [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.267, 23.228, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.168, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; so Ῥοδώπιος πέρι πέπαυμαι (i.e. λέγων) [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.135, compare 7.10. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.4 less frequently with infinitive, stop a person from.., ἔμ᾽ ἔπαυσας ἐπὶ Τρώεσσι μάχεσθαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.442; ῥαψῳδοὺς ἔπαυσε ἀγωνίζεσθαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.67, compare 7.54: sometimes with μή] Refs 8th c.BC+] inserted, θνητούς γ᾽ ἔπαυσα μὴ προδέρκεσθαι μόρον [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 250; παύσας ὑμᾶς μὴ λίαν ἐξαπατᾶσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 634; also π. τὸ μὴ προσελθεῖν.. τὴν ὁλκάδα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.53; π. τοῦ.. εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 416c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.4.b middle with infinitive, [[ Batrachomyomachia 193, “Anthologia Graeca” 6.21.8, and later Prose, as 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.216d. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__I.5 middle, yield, give, of timber, opposed to ἵστασθαι, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 5.6.3. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II intransitive in imperative παῦε, cease, leave off (παύου is rare, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ichn.” 359, 4th c.BC: Ephippus Comicus 5.20, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Im.” 2), παῦε μάχης 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 449 codices, compare “hymnus ad Cererem” 351; παῦε γόοιο “epigram Gr.” 320.5 (from Thyatira): mostly _absolutely_, παῦε] Refs 8th c.BC+] stop! have done! be quiet! παῦε, μὴ λέξῃς πέρα [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1275, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1208, “Ra.” 122, 269, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 228e; παῦε, παῦε, μὴ βόα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1504, compare “V.” 1194; also παῦε, παῦε τοῦ λόγου [prev. author] “Ra.” 580; παῦε, παῦ᾽ ὀρχούμενος [prev. author] “Pax” 326; παῦ᾽ ἐς κόρακας [prev. author] “Ach.” 864 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], where the other Verbs are plural; παῦ, apocalyptic for παῦε, παῦ, μηδὲν ὄμνυ᾽ [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Σαμία” 96, compare 2nd c.AD: Aelius Dionysius Grammaticus “fragment” 275, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]: also imperative middle, παῦσαι λέγουσα [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 706; παῦσαι φαρμακοπωλῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 28; π. μελῳδοῦσ᾽ “Comica Adespota” 601; π. δυσωνῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 224, compare 5th c.BC: Theopompus Comicus 62, {5-6th c.BC}: Philetaerus Comicus 6, 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 213.1 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; παύσασθε νοῦν ἔχοντες (to be read λέγοντες) [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 482.1. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
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