παύω
I. Causal, "to make to cease":
1. of persons, "to bring to an end, check, make an end of" (by death), Hom., etc.:—Pass. and Mid. "to take one's rest, rest, cease, have done", Il.:—also of things, "to make an end of, stop, abate", id=Il., etc.; π. τόξον "to let" one's bow "rest", Od.; π. τὸν νόμον "to annul" it, Eur.; π. τυραννίδα "to put" it "down", Dem.
2. c. acc. pers. et gen. rei, "to make to rest, stop, hinder, keep back from" a thing, π. Ἕκτορα μάχης, etc., Hom., etc.: —π. τινὰ τῆς βασιλείας "to depose" one "from" being king, Hdt., etc.:—Pass. and Mid. "to leave off from, rest or cease from", πολέμου Hom., etc.; τῆς μάχης Hdt., etc.; ἐκ τρόχων πεπαυμένοι "at rest" from play, Eur.
3. rarely c. gen. rei only, αἴ κέ ποθι Ζεὺς παύσηι ὀϊζύος oh that Zeus "would make an end of" woe! Od.; φάρμαχ᾽, ἅ κεν παύσηισι ὀδυνάων Il.
4. c. part. praes. "to stop" a person from "doing or being", π. τινὰ ἀριστεύοντα "to stop" him "from being" first, id=Il., attic:—Pass. and Mid. "to leave off doing or being", ἄνεμος μὲν ἐπαύσατο θύων "left off" blowing, Od.; the partic. omitted, αἷμα ἐπαύσατο the blood "stopt [flowing]", Il., etc.
5. inf. for part., ἔμ᾽ ἔπαυσας μάχεσθαι id=Il.; with μή inserted, θνητούς γ᾽ ἔπαυσα μὴ προδέρκεσθαι Aesch.
II. intr. in imperat., παῦε "cease, leave off", Soph., Ar.; so, παῦε, παῦε τοῦ λόγου Ar.