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παίδι-ον (parox.), τό, Dim. of παῖς (never in Trag.),
A.little or young child (up to 7 yrs., acc. to Hp. ap. Ph.1.26), Hdt.1.110, 2.119, Ar.Pax 50; “τὰ νεωστὶ γεγονότα π.” Pl.Ly.212e; ἐκ παιδίου from a child, Ar. Eq.412, X.Cyr.1.6.20: prov., τοῦ πατρὸς τὸ π. 'chip of the old block', Com.Adesp.672, title of satire by Varro; so “τῆς μητρὸς τὸ π.” Str.10.3.15 (with play on Μήτηρ).
II. young slave, male or female, IG12.329.27, 22.1554.67, 1556.22, Ar.Ra.37, Nu.132, Av.1150(s. v.l.).
III. τὸ παιδίον, a disease of children, prob. convulsions, dub. l. in Hp.Aër.
3. παίδι-ος , ὁ, barbarism for foreg., Plu.Alex.27.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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