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πα^λαί-φα^τος , ον, (φημί) poet. Adj.
I. spoken long ago, “ἦ μάλα δή με π. θέσφαθ᾽ ἱκάνει” Od.9.507, cf. Pi.O.2.40, S.OC454; π. λόγος, ἀραί, A.Ag.750 (lyr.), Th.766 (lyr.).
II. spoken of long ago, legendary, δρῦς π. an oak of ancient story, Od.19.163 (vv. ll. παλαίφαγος, παλαίφυτος, cf. Hsch.).
2. of ancient fame, made known or declared of old, “γενεά” Pi.N.6.31; “γένος” A.Supp.532 (lyr.); “πρόνοια” S.Tr.823 (lyr.); “Δίκη” Id.OC1381; Ἀχάρναι δὲ παλαίφατον εὐάνορες Acharnae was brave of old time, Pi.N.2.16.
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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    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 750
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 532
    • Homer, Odyssey, 19.163
    • Homer, Odyssey, 9.507
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1381
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