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σφεῖς

Pronoun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφεῖς

Etym.: cf. sfe

Sense

  1. they
  2. they, themselves

Note

호메로스는 대명사 및 재귀용법으로 이 단어를 자주 사용하였으나, 아티카 방언에서는 이 단어 대신 αὐτός, αὐτή, αὐτόeautos가 자주 사용되었음

Declension

Plural
Nominative σφεῖς
Genitive σφῶν
Dative σφίσιν*
Accusative σφας
Vocative

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἶθ’ ἵνα δὴ καὶ σφεῖσ μηδὲν ἧττον συμβουλὰσ χρησίμουσ ἀναθεῖεν, ταῦτα γράψαντεσ ἀνέθεσαν. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 243:2)
  • αὐτοὶ μὲν οὖν ὑπάρχειν αὐτῷ φίλοι καὶ ξένοι καὶ ἄνευ τῶν δώρων τούτων, εἰσ δὲ τὰ τῆσ πόλεωσ πράγματ’, ἐν οἷσ ἦν τότε, τὴν φιλανθρωπίαν αὐτὸν ἠξίουν ταύτην προσθέντ’ ἄξιόν τι καὶ αὑτοῦ καὶ τῶν Θηβαίων πρᾶξαι, καὶ ὅλην τε τὴν πόλιν οὕτω καὶ σφεῖσ ὡμολόγουν ὑπάρξειν αὐτῷ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 182:3)
  • αὐτῷ τε κινδυνεύοντι τὸ πολὺ ἐν ταῖσ μάχαισ σφαλερὰ ἡ νὺξ κατεφαίνετο, καὶ ἅμα ἡσσηθέντι τε αὖθισ Δαρείῳ τὴν ξυγχώρησιν τοῦ χείρονι ὄντι χειρόνων ἡγεῖσθαι ἡ λαθραία τε καὶ νυκτερινὴ ἐκ σφῶν ἐπίθεσισ ἀφῃρεῖτο, εἴ τέ τι ἐκ τοῦ παραλόγου πταῖσμα σφίσι ξυμπέσοι, τοῖσ μὲν πολεμίοισ τὰ κύκλῳ φίλια καὶ αὐτοὶ τῆσ χώρασ ἔμπειροι, σφεῖσ δὲ ἄπειροι ἐν πολεμίοισ τοῖσ πᾶσιν, ὧν οὐ μικρὰ μοῖρα οἱ αἰχμάλωτοι ἦσαν, ξυνεπιθησόμενοι ἐν νυκτὶ μὴ ὅτι πταίσασιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰ μὴ παρὰ πολὺ νικῶντεσ φαίνοιντο. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 10 3:2)
  • οἱο͂ν οἱ ἔμποροι καὶ γεωργοὶ καὶ σιτουργοὶ πάντεσ, καὶ πρὸσ τούτοισ γυμνασταὶ καὶ τὸ τῶν ἰατρῶν γένοσ, οἶσθ’ ὅτι τοῖσ περὶ τὰ ἀνθρώπινα νομεῦσιν, οὓσ πολιτικοὺσ ἐκαλέσαμεν, παντάπασι τῷ λόγῳ διαμάχοιντ’ ἂν οὗτοι σύμπαντεσ, ὡσ σφεῖσ τῆσ τροφῆσ ἐπιμελοῦνται τῆσ ἀνθρωπίνησ, οὐ μόνον ἀγελαίων ἀνθρώπων ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆσ τῶν ἀρχόντων αὐτῶν; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 65:5)
  • ἐπεὶ μέντοι σφεῖσ λέγειν, ἔφασαν, ὅτι οὐκ ἀπὸ κοινοῦ γένοιτο τὸ πρᾶγμα, ἥδεσθαί τε αὐτοὺσ καὶ μέλλειν ἐνθάδε πλεῖν, ὡσ ἡμῖν λέξαι τὰ γενόμενα καὶ τοὺσ νεκροὺσ κελεύειν αὐτοὺσ θάπτειν λαβόντασ. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 7 20:2)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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