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σφεῖς

Pronoun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφεῖς

Etym.: cf. sfe

Sense

  1. they
  2. they, themselves

Note

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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

  • εἰ δὲ δὴ πελάζοιεν, ἐγχρίμψαντασ ταῖσ ἀσπίσι καὶ τοῖσ ὤμοισ ἀντερείσαντασ δέχεσθαι τὴν προσβολὴν ὡσ καρτερώτατα καὶ τῇ συγκλείσει πυκνοτάτῃ τὰσ πρώτασ τρεῖσ τάξεισ συνερειδούσασ σφίσιν ὡσ βιαιότατον οἱο͂́ν τε· (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 35:2)
  • Ἕλληνεσ δὲ οὔτε παρ’ Αἰθιόπων οὔτε παρ’ Αἰγυπτίων ἀστρολογίησ πέρι οὐδὲν ἤκουσαν, ἀλλὰ σφίσιν Ὀρφεὺσ ὁ Οἰάγρου καὶ Καλλιόπησ πρῶτοσ τάδε ἀπηγήσατο, οὐ μάλα ἐμφανέωσ, οὐδὲ ἐσ φάοσ τὸν λόγον προήνεγκεν, ἀλλ’ ἐσ γοητείην καὶ ἱερολογίην, οἱή διανοίη ἐκείνου. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 10:1)
  • ἔνθα δὴ Θυέστησ μὲν τὸν κριὸν σφίσιν τὸν ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ σημηνάμενοσ ἐπέδειξεν, ἀπὸ τέω δὴ ἄρνα χρύσεον Θυέστῃ γενέσθαι μυθολογέουσιν. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 12:2)
  • Λακεδαιμονίοισι δὲ Λυκοῦργοσ τὴν πολιτείην πᾶσαν ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ διετάξατο καὶ νόμον σφίσιν ἐποιήσατο μηδαμὰ . (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 25:1)
  • οὐ γάρ σφισιν ἀγνοέουσιν ἐπέρχεται, ἀλλ’ ἐν μελέτῃ καὶ προσδοκίῃ ῥηίδια καὶ πρηέα ἡγεῖται. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 29:6)

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

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