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πα^παῖ (not παπαί, Hdn.Gr.2.933), exclam. of suffering, whether mental, as A.Pers.1031, or (more freq.) physical, Ar.Ach.1214, etc.; doubled, A.l.c., Ag.1114;
A.“φεῦ παπαῖ, παπαῖ μάλ᾽ αὖθις” S.Ph.792; also παππαπαππαπαῖ ib.754; παπαῖ, ἀπαππαπαῖ, παπᾶ παπᾶ παπᾶ παπαῖ ib.746.
II. of surprise, Hdt.8.26; π., οἷον λέγεις you don't say so!, Pl.Lg.704c; also “παπαπαπαῖ” Ar.Th.1191: c. gen., “παπαῖ τῶν ἐπαίνων” Luc.Cont.23; expressing scorn, S.Fr.153.
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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