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===verb transitive===

[[act a part]]: [[prose|P.]] [[ὑποκρίνεσθαι]].

[[play Antigone]]: [[prose|P.]] [[Ἀντιγόνην ὑποκρίνεσθαι]].

[[play]] (a [[piece]]): [[prose|P.]] [[ὑποκρίνεσθαι]], [[ἀγωνίζεσθαι]] ([[Demosthenes|Dem.]] 418 and 449).

[[play the second part]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] [[δευτεριάζειν]].

[[play third rate parts]]: [[prose|P.]] [[τριταγωνιστεῖν]].

Met., [[play the coward]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[κακίζεσθαι]], [[λιποψυχεῖν]], [[prose|P.]] [[μαλακίζεσθαι]], [[ἀποδειλιᾶν]].

[[play the man]]: [[prose|P.]] [[ἀνδραγαθίζεσθαι]].

[[play a mean part]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[κακύνεσθαι]].

[[play a part]], [[pretend]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[προσποιεῖσθαι]].

[[play a game]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[παιδιὰν παίζειν]].

[[play a double game]], met.: [[prose|P.]] [[ἐπαμφοτερίζειν]].

[[play the harp]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[κιθαρίζειν]].

[[play the pipe]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[αὐλεῖν]].

[[play pipe to]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] [[προσαυλεῖν]] (''Eccl.'' 892).

===verb intransitive===

[[play]] (as [[children]]): [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[παίζειν]] [[verse|V.]] [[ἀθύρειν]] (also [[Plato]] but rare [[prose|P.]]).

[[act in jest]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[παίζειν]].

[[play an instrument]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[ψάλλειν]].

[[the flute girl played]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] [[αὐλητρὶς ἐνεφύσησε]] (''[[Vespae]]'' 1219).

[[gamble]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[κυβεύειν]].

[[play at]]: [[prose|P.]] [[παίζειν]] (dat.).

[[play at dice]]: [[prose|P.]] [[ἀστραγάλοις παίζειν]] ([[Plato]], [[alci]]. [[i]]. 110B).

[[play into]]: not thinking they were playing into the hands of [[Agoratus]]: [[prose|P.]] [[οὐκ οἰόμενοι Ἀγοράτῳ συμπράσσειν]] (Lys. 138).

[[play off]]: play off the Greeks one against another: [[prose|P.]] [[αὐτοὺς περὶ ἑαυτοὺς τοὺς Ἕλληνας κατατρῖψαι]] ([[Thucydides|Thuc.]] 8, 46).

[[play on]] (play on [[word]]s, etc.): [[prose|P.]] [[κομψεύεσθαι]] (acc.), [[verse|V.]] [[κομψεύειν]] (acc.); see also [[play upon]].

[[play upon]], [[turn to account]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[χρῆσθαι]] (dat.).

[[play with]], [[mock]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[παίζειν πρός]] (acc.), [[prose|P.]] [[προσπαίζειν]] (dat.).

===verb intransitive===

[[move about]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[αἰωρεῖσθαι]]; see [[move]], [[hover]].

===substantive===

[[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[παιδιά]], ἡ.

[[speak in play]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[παίζων εἰπεῖν]].

[[piece for acting]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[δρᾶμα]], τό.

[[give play to]], [[exercise]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[μελετᾶν]], [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[γυμνάζειν]]. Use, [[put into operation]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[χρῆσθαι]] (dat.).

[[make a display of]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἐνδείκνυσθαι]].

[[call into play]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[κινεῖν]], [[ἐγείρειν]]; see [[evoke]].

[[fair play]]: [[prose|P.]] [[ἐπιείκεια]], ἡ.
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