παῦε (paue)

παῦε is an Ancient Greek form of παύω, meaning “make stop, check; (mid.) cease, stop”. It is the 2nd person singular present active imperative.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 15.32: παῦε. ὁκοῖα θεοῖς ἐδόκει, τοιαῦτα νένιμμαι.

Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti 2: … κης δέησιν, ὅπως τὸν βουλόμενον ὑμῶν ἀναλύσασα καὶ καταστήσασα πάλιν εἰς τὸ ἀρχαῖον εἶδος ἀποπέμψῃ μεθʼ ἡμῶν. Παῦε, Ὀδυσσεῦ, καὶ περαιτέρω μηδὲν εἴπῃς ὡς καὶ σοῦ πάντες ἡμεῖς καταφρονοῦμεν, ὡς μάτην ἄρα δεινὸς ἐλέγου καὶ τῷ …

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume III 9.70.4: παύεʼ, ἐπεί σε μένει καὶ κατόπιν δάκρυα.

All forms of παύω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.