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Παιάν

paian

choral song, hymn

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Where it lives

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  • Ion 5 · 5.47/10k
  • Trachiniae 3 · 4.13/10k
  • Seven Against Thebes 2 · 3.97/10k
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  • Libation Bearers 2 · 3.72/10k
  • Oedipus Tyrannus 3 · 3.24/10k
  • Trojan Women 2 · 2.83/10k
  • Iphigenia in Tauris 2 · 2.41/10k
  • Philoctetes 2 · 2.27/10k
  • Critias 1 · 2.02/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. παιάν · paian — Beekes

παιάν, -ἄνος [m.] ‘choral song, hymn’, especially for Apollo, ‘paean’; also personified as ‘divine physician’ (Hom.); epithet of Apollo, ‘physician, savior’; also name of a foot (Arist., Heph.). «ΡΟ» “VAR παιήων, -ονος (Il.), παιών, -@voc (IA), πάων, -ovoc (Aeol.); παιάν, -ἄνος (Dor., trag., Hell.). *DIAL Myc. pa-ja-wo-ne /Paiawonei/ [dat.]. *DER 1. παιών-ιος ‘belonging to a paean, healing, saving’ (A, S., Ar.), … — [Beekes, s.v. παιάν, p. 1193]

2. παιάν · paian — Chantraine

παιάν, -ἄνος : m. (dor., trag., hellén.), παιήων, -ovoc (Hom., ép.), παιών, -&vos (ion.-att.); dans cette forme la contraction (pour -ἔων attendu) s'explique parce que la voyelle précédente est & et l’accentuation -ών (pour -&v) est analogique ; forme dialectale, lesbien ἸΤάων (Sapho 44,33). Cette forme remonte à un prototype en à Foy attesté dans le mycénien (Cnossos) datif pajawone, voir Ruijgh, Minos 9, 1968, 119. — [Chantraine, s.v. παιάν, p. 864]

3. παιάν · paian — Frisk

παιάν, -ävos (dor., Trag., hell.), παιήων, -ovos (ep. seit Il.), παιών, -ὥνος (ion. att.; vgl. Wackernagel Glotta 14, 61ff. = Kl. Schr. 2, 869 ff.), πάων, -ovoc (äol.) m. Bez. eines Heil- und Lobgesangs, vorw. an Apollon, „Päan‘, auch personifiziert als Götterarzt (Hom.), später Bein. des Apollon, appellat. “Arzt, Heiland’; auch N. eines Versfußes (Arist., Heph. u.a.). — Davon 1. παιών-ιος "zum Päan gehörig, … — [Frisk, s.v. παιάν, p. 1432]

4. Παιάν · Paian — LSJ

2

title of Apollo (later as epith., Ἀπόλλωνι Παιᾶνι BCH 11.94 (Hierocaesarea); ὦ βασιλεῦ Π. . . Ἄπολλον BMus.Inscr. 1151); ἰὴ Παιήονʼ ἄειδον h.Ap. 517, cf. Call. Hec. Fr. 260.10 Pf. [updated ref.] (in Id. Ap. 103 ἱὴ ἱὴ Παιήονʼ, ἵει βέλος an etym. from ἵημι may be suggested); ἰὴ Παιών GDI iv p.884 (Erythrae, iv B. C.); ἰήϊε Παιάν A. Ag. 146 (lyr.), S. OT 154 (lyr.); ἰὼ Παιάν Id. Tr. 221 (lyr.), Ar. Ach. 1212; ὦναξ Π. E. Alc. 220, etc.; τὸν Παίωνά (better Παιῶνά) τε καὶ τὰς Μούσας ἐπικαλούμενος Pl.

3 physician, healer

physician, healer, παιὼν γενοῦ τῆσδε μερίμνης A. Ag. 99 (anap.); παιῶνα κακῶν S. Ph. 168 (anap.).

b saviour, deliverer

saviour, deliverer, ὦ θάνατε Παιάν A. Fr. 255.1, cf. E. Hipp. 1373 (anap.).

II paean, choral song

παιάν, Ep. παιήων, Att., Ion. παιών, paean, i.e. choral song, addressed to Apollo or Artemis (the burden being ἰὴ or ἰὼ Παιάν, v. supr. I.2), in thanksgiving for deliverance from evil, μολπῇ θεὸν ἱλάσκοντο, καλὸν ἀείδοντες παιήονα Il. 1.473; Κρητῶν παιήονες h.Ap. 518; παιᾶνʼ ἐπευφήμησεν A. Fr. 350.4, cf. B. 15.8, Procl. ap. Phot. Bibl. p.320 B.: hence opp. θρῆνοι, A. Ch. 343 (anap.), cf. Sch. Ar. Pl. 636 (but v. infr. 4); addressed to other gods, as to Poseidon after an earthquake, X. HG 4.7.4.

2 song of triumph, battle-song

song of triumph after victory, prop. to Apollo, Il. 22.391 sq.; ἁλώσιμος π. A. Th. 635, etc.; also, battle-song, παιᾶνʼ ἐφύμνουν σεμνὸν Ἕλληνες Id. Pers. 393, cf. Lys. 2.38, X. Cyr. 4.1.6; addressed to Ares, Sch. Th. 1.50; ἐξάρχειν τὸν π. or τοῦ παιᾶνος, X. Cyr. 3.3.58, Plu. Rom. 16; π. ποιεῖσθαι X. HG 7.4.36.

3 any solemn song, chant

any solemn song or chant, esp. on beginning an undertaking, Th. 7.75 (pl.); π. γαμήλιος Ar. Th. 1035 (lyr.); τριτόσπονδος π. A. Ag. 247 (lyr.); ἔγχει κἀπιβόα τρίτον παιῶνα Pherecr. 131.5, cf. Antiph. 4, 85.5.

4

by oxymoron, π. Ἐρινύων, π. τοῦ θανόντος, A. Ag. 645, Ch. 151; π. στυγνός, of a dirge, E. Tr. 126 (lyr.); παιᾶνα στενάζειν ib. 577; π. τῷ κάτωθεν θεῷ Id. Alc. 424.

III paeon

in Prosody, paeon, a foot consisting of 3 short and 1 long syll., _⏑⏑⏑, ⏑_⏑⏑, ⏑⏑_⏑, or ⏑⏑⏑_, Arist. Rh. 1409a2 (in form παιάν; later παιών), Heph. 3.3, etc.; also π. διάγυιος, the foot _⏑_, and π. ἐπιβατός, a foot of 5 long sylls., Aristid. Quint. 1.16.— Attic form: Παιών is used of the god in IG 1(2).310.229 (v B. C.), and in codd. of Att. Prose and Com.; παιάν is used of the song in IG 2(2).1338.19 (i B. C.), but this may be Hellenistic; codd. have παιών in Pherecr. 131.5, Ar. Th. 1035, Pl. Io

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Where it came from

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Παιάν (scan p. 1193; entry #4774).
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Παιάν (scan p. 864; entry #6209).
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Παιάν (scan pp. 1432-1433; entry #4459). Root candidates: *nard-.

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