The headword is a denominative verb from pa/tagos (pi 770, pi 771, pi 773), here in the present indicative active, third person plural. (For the glossing cf. Hesychius s.v. patagei=.) It must be quoted from somewhere: probably Aristophanes, Clouds 378 (cf. the scholia there), though there are other possibilities, including Sophocles, Ajax 168.
[2] Part of Menander Protector fr. 10.3 Blockley (118-119), on the Turkish shamans encountered by Zemarchus (cf. alpha 2962 note) during his embassy of 569-571. Here the verb is the compound e)pipatage/w. See further excerpts from this fragment at alpha 2962, alpha 3615, epsilon 963, epsilon 2425, epsilon 3658, eta 416, theta 226, kappa 2021, lambda 57, pi 1026, pi 1273, upsilon 178, upsilon 408, phi 617, and chi 340.
[3] Adler attributed this tentatively to Iamblichus; now Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 116 Habrich.