Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“παλαιότερος” Pi.N.6.53, Th.1.1 codd., “παλαιότατος” Pl.Ti. 83a, etc.: more freq. παλαίτερος, παλαίτατος (from πάλαι), Pi.P.10.58, N.7.44, Th.1.4, etc. [The penult. is sts. short in Poets, S.Fr.956 (s. v. l.), E.El.497, Damocr. ap. Gal.13.1049; “παλεός γα ναὶ τὸν Κάστορα ἄνθρωπος” Ar.Lys.988; in these places παλεός (a form mentioned by Hdn.Gr.2.909, cf. Theognost.Can.50.3, Sch.Ar.Lys. l. c., Suid., and corroborated by the Pap. (iv B. C.) of Timotheus (v. παλεομίσημα, παλεονυμφάγονος)) may be retained or restored).]:

I. old in years,

1. mostly of persons, aged, “ἢ νέος ἠὲ παλαιός” Il.14.108; “νέοι ἠδὲ παλαιοί” Od.1.395, cf. Epicur.Ep.3p.59U.; “παλαιῷ φωτὶ ἐοικώς” Il. 14.136; π. γέρων, π. γρηῦς, Od.13.432, 19.346, cf. Ar.Ach.676; “χρόνῳ π.” S.OC112; “ἐν παλαιτέροισι” Pi.N.3.73; “ἔνθα δὴ παλαίτατοι θάσσουσι” E.Med.68: in bad sense, a dotard (“μωρός” Hsch., but “σκώπτης” Suid.), Ar.Lys.988.

2. of things, “οἶνος” Od.2.340; νῆες . . νέαι ἠδὲ π. ib. 293; “τρὺξ π. καὶ σαπρά” Ar.Pl.1086; [“τριήρεις] π. ἀντὶ καινῶν” Lys.28.4; “ὑποδήματα” Pl.Men.91d; “σπέρματα” Thphr.HP7.1.6.

II. of old date, ancient,

1. of persons, ξεῖνος π. an old guest-friend, Il.6.215, cf. S.Tr.263, E.Alc.212; “Ἴλου παλαιοῦ” Il.11.166; “κέρδεα . . οἷ᾽ οὔ πώ τιν᾽ ἀκούομεν οὐδὲ παλαιῶν” Od.2.118; “Μίνως παλαίτατος ὧν ἀκοῇ ἴς μεν” Th.1.4; “οἱ πάνυ π. ἄνθρωποι” Pl.Cra.411b; οἱ π. the ancients, Th.1.3; “π. ἡμερῶν” LXX Da.7.9.

2. of things, “λέκτρον” Od.23.296; “παλαιά τε πολλά τε εἰδώς” 7.157; “καινὰ καὶ π. ἔργα” Hdt.9.26; “νόμοι” A.Eu. 778 (lyr.); “κατὰ τὸ νόμιμον τὸ π. καὶ ἀρχαῖον” Lys.6.51; “κατὰ τὸν π. λόγον” Pl.Grg.499c; “ἡ π. παροιμία” Id.R.329a; “παλαί᾽ ἂν [εἴη], ἐξ ὅτου” S.Ph.493; “παλαιᾷ σύντροφος ἁμερᾷ” Id.Aj.622 (lyr.); of places, A.Pers.17 (anap.), S.El.4, etc.; καιροὶ π. ancient times, PPetr.2p.15 (iii B. C.); τὸ π. as Adv., anciently, formerly, A.Pers.102 (lyr.), Hdt.1.171, Pl.Cra.401c, etc.; ἐκ παλαιοῦ from of old, Hdt. 1.157; “ἐκ π. ἐχθρὸς ὢν αὐτοῦ” Antipho 2.1.5; “ἐκ τῶν παλαιῶν” Herod.2.102; ἐκ παλαιτέρου from older time, Hdt.1.60; “ἐκ παλαιτάτου” Th.1.18; also εὐθὺς ἀπὸ παλαιοῦ ib.2; ἀρχαῖα καὶ παλαιά joined, D.22.14, cf. Lys. (v. supr.); “παλαιὸν δῶρον ἀρχαίου ποτὲ θηρός” S.Tr.555.

3. of things, also,

a. in good sense, venerable, held in esteem, like Lat. antiquus, “ἅπερ μέγιστα καὶ παλαιότατα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις” Antipho 6.4.

b. in bad sense, antiquated, obsolete, “κωφὰ καὶ π. ἔπη” S.OT290.

c. π. δρᾶμα a drama which has been previously acted, SIG1078 lxxxvii (Athens, iv B. C.).

III. Adv. παλαιῶς in an old way, “τὰ καινὰ π. διδάσκειν” Socr.Ep.30.9: Comp. παλαίτερον at an earlier time, D.H.8.57, al.