διανα-παύω,
allow to rest awhile, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 2.48, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1339b30, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Flamininus” 4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; interrupt, τὸ συνεχές [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 7 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; δ. τὴν ταυτότητα relieve the monotony, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 12 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]:—middle, rest awhile, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 625b, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.197, 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “ad Marcellam - Porphyrii Opuscula” 4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—also intransitive in active, [[ 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “Orationes” 51(27).17. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]