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παιων-ίζω ,
A.chant the paean or song of victory, SIG57.8, al. (Milet., v B. C.), GDIiv p.884 (Erythrae), Hdt.5.1, Ar.Eq.1318, Pax555, Th. 1.50 (Pass.), X.An.6.1.5, D.C.43.37, etc.; “π. ἐπὶ ταῖς τῶν Ἑλλήνων συμφοραῖς” D.18.287: c. acc. cogn., sing in triumph, “ὀλολυγμὸν ἱρὸν . . παιώνισον” A.Th.268 (v.l. παιάνισον).
II. honour with paeans, τὸν θάνατον μόνοι ἀνθρώπων παιωνίζονται (Med.) Philostr.VA5.4:— Pass., οὐδὲ παιωνίζεται (sc. ὁ Θάνατος) A.Fr.161.3. (The Att. and Ion. form παιων- is found in most codd. of ll. cc. and of Th.2.91, 4.43,al.; παιαν- in X.Smp.2.1, Pl.Ax.365b, Plb.3.43.8.)
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (13):
    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 268
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 1318
    • Aristophanes, Peace, 555
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 287
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.1
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.50
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.91
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.43
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 6.1.5
    • Xenophon, Symposium, 2.1
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.43.8
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 43.37
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 5.4
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