[Meaning] to call upon [sc. the god?] Paean. It was customary to say this both in reference to those beginning a task and in the case of a victory.
*paiani/sai: to\n *paia=na e)pikalei=sqai. h)=n de\ e)/qos kai\ e)pi\ e)/rgou a)rxome/nous kai\ e)pi\ th=| ni/kh| tou=to le/gein.
cf. generally
pi 836,
pi 837,
pi 838,
pi 842. The present entry comes from
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon (via
Photius pi14 Theodoridis); this aorist infinitive is not extant anywhere in
Plato, but there is a present participle,
paiani/zontas, at
Axiochus 365B.
Adler does print 'Paean' in upper case, but the editions of the other lexica are inconsistent in that regard; most recently Theodoridis has lower case, but in any event there is also ambiguity about whether the article immediately before it is
to/n or neuter
to/ (the latter to be taken with
e)pikalei=sqai).
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