παῖς
παῖς, also παῦς (q. v.), παιδός, ὁ, ἡ, gen. pl. παίδων, Dor. παιδῶν Greg.Cor. p.317 S.; dat. pl. παισί, Ep. παίδεσσι Od. 3.381, etc.; in early Ep. freq. disyll. in nom. πάϊς, e. g. when forming part of two different feet, Il. 2.609, 5.704, etc.; prob. also in the fifth foot, 9.57, 11.389; and before bucolic diaeresis, 2.205, al.; also in Lyr., Sapph. 38, 85; and in Boeot., IG 7.690, al. ( Tanagra), cf. πῆς; πάϊ [ᾰῑ] Od. 24.192 ( παιδ- is never disyll. in oblique cases in Hom.); acc. πάϊν A.R. 4.697, AP 3.8 ( Inscr. Cyzic.), 9.125; gen. παϊδός Epigr. ap. Luc. Symp. 41; dat. παϊδί prob. in Anacr. 17: