A.“παίξομαι” LXX 2 Ki.6.21, AP12.46 (Asclep.), παίξω ib.211 (Strat.), Anacreont.41.8: aor. 1 “ἔπαισα” Hom. (v. infr.), Ar.Pl.1055, etc.: pf. “πέπαικα” Men.923.3: pf. Pass. “πέπαισμαι” Hdt.4.77 (v.l. πέπλασται), Ar.Th.1227; imper. “πεπαίσθω” Pl.Euthd.278d: also aor. “ἔπαιξα” Crates Com.23, Ctes.Fr.29.59, LXX Jd.16.25, Luc.DDeor.6.4, etc.: pf. “πέπαιχα” Plu.Dem.9:—Pass., aor. “ἐπαίχθην” Id.2.123f, Hld.8.6: pf. “πέπαιγμαι” Epigr.Gr.979.3 (Philae); inf. πεπαῖχθαι Timarch. ap. Ath.11.501f; imper. “πεπαίχθω” Phld.Mus.p.106 K., Fronto Epig.Gr.5.86: Hom. uses only pres. and impf., and (in Od.8.251) aor. imper. παίσατε; Trag. only pres.: (παῖς):—prop., play like a child, sport, “τῇ δέ θ᾽ ἅμα Νύμφαι . . ἀγρονόμοι παίζουσι” Od.6.106, cf. 7.291 (never in Il.), Hdt.1.114, etc.: metaph., “αἰὼν παῖς ἐστὶ παίζων” Heraclit.52.
2. esp. dance, “παίσατε” Od.8.251; “δῶμα περιστεναχίζετο ποσσὶν ἀνδρῶν παιζόντων” 23.147, cf. Hes.Sc.277; “π. τε καὶ χορεύειν” Ar.Ra.409, cf. 390; “ἐνόπλια χαλκωθεὶς ἔπαιζεν” Pi.O.13.86:—Pass., ἀλλὰ πέπαισται μετρίως ἡμῖν, of the chorus, Ar. Th.1227.
3. play [a game], “σφαίρῃ π.” Od.6.100; “κλεψύδρῃ” Emp.100.9; κύβοις ἐπὶ συνθήκαις π. Ctes.l.c.; ἀντ᾽ ἀστραγάλων κονδύλοισι π. Pherecr.43, cf. Antiph.92; π. διὰ γραμμῆς (v. γραμμή III. 2); “π. πρὸς κότταβον” Pl.Com.46.1; μετά τινων with others, Hdt.1.114: c. acc. cogn., κότταβον ἀ<*>γκύλῃ π. Anacr.53 (dub.); “σφαῖραν” Plu.Alex.73; “π. παιδιὰν πρός τινα” Ar.Pl.1055, cf. Pl.Alc.1.110b; κύνα καὶ πόλιν π., of a game similar to our draughts, Cratin. 56: with Advbs., φαινίνδα π. Antiph.283, cf. Crates Com. l.c., etc.
4. play on a musical instrument, h.Ap.206: c. acc., “Πὰν ὁ καλαμόφθογγα παίζων” Ar.Ra.230; dance and sing, Pi. O.1.16.
II. jest, sport, Hdt.2.28, 5.4, 9.11; opp. σπουδάζω, X. Mem.4.1.1; opp. σπουδῇ λέγω, Id.Cyr.8.3.47; παίζετε ταῦτα λέγοντες (opp. σπουδάζετε) Pl.Euthd.283b; “π. καὶ χλευάζειν” Ar.Ra.376; “π. καὶ γελᾶν” Antiph.218.4; “πῖνε, παῖζε” Amphis 8; π. πρός τινα make fun with a person, E.HF952, cf. Pl.Men.79a, Men.Pk.198; π. εἴς τι play with a thing, Pl.Phd.89b: c. Adj. neut., “τοιαῦτα ἔπαιζον σπουδῇ πρὸς ἀλλήλους” X.Cyr.6.1.6: part. παίζων is freq. abs., jestingly, Pl.Tht.145b, al.; opp. σπουδάζων, Id.Lg.636c, al.:—Pass., ὁ λόγος πέπαισται has been made up as a jest (v.l. for πέπλασται), Hdt.4.77; ταῦτα πεπαίσθω ὑμῖν enough of jest, Pl.Euthd.278d, cf. Phdr.278b, Phld. l.c.; πεπαῖχθαι τὴν λέξιν Timarch. l.c.; τοῦτο τὸ παιζόμενον 'as the joke is', Plu. 2.1090f; τὸ Μενεδήμῳ πεπαιγμένον ib.81e; but οἷα πέπαιγμαι, in act. sense, Epigr.Gr.979.3 (Philae).