σῐωπ-άω,
infinitive σιωπᾶν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.280: ] Refs 8th c.BC+]future -ήσομαι in early writers, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 233, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 309, “Av.” 225, “Lys.” 364, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 234a, etc.;] Refs 5th c.BC+] later -ήσω [[4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator “Epistulae” 10.1, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 11.6, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.240e, etc. (compare σιγάω)] Refs 4th c.BC+]: aorist (ἐ) σιώπησα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.568, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect σεσιώπηκα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 944, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 6.34 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle and passive, see below: Doric dialect σωπάω (which see):—keep silence, σιωπᾶν λαὸν ἀνώγει [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.280, compare 23.568, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.513, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.10, etc.; Σιμωνίδης τὴν ζωγραφίαν ποίησιν σιωπῶσαν προσαγορεύει 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.346f ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; φησὶν σιωπῶν his silence is an admission, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1592, compare “IA” 1245; πονηρῶν ἔργων δόξει κοινωνεῖν τῷ σιωπῆσαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.33 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. τινί keep silence for or at the behest of.. , [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1134, “Lys.” 530; σ. πρός τινα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 234a; πρὸς τοῦτο 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.5.20; ὑπέρ τινος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 796; _imperative_ σιώπα ] Refs 5th c.BC+]hush! be still! [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 81, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 529, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]