[*] 529. Article as antecedent of the relative. Wherever the article is used as a full demonstrative, it may be used as the antecedent of the relative, but the regular antecedent of the relative is “οὗτος”. In Attic prose the few examples cited are mainly in the neuter gender, and may be explained and have been explained on the same principle as the ordinary article with any word or group of words. “οὔ τις” | “τῶν οἳ νῦν βροτοί εἰσιν”, HOM. Il. 1.271-2. But in Attic: “τὰ ἐν τοῖς ὕδασι φαντάσματα καὶ ἐν τοῖς ὅσα πυκνά τε καὶ λεῖα καὶ φανὰ ξυνέστηκε”, PLATO, Rpb. 510A (“ὅσα . . . ξυνέστηκε” parallel with “ὕδασι”). “τόν τε Εὐθύκριτον . . . καὶ τὸν ὃς ἔφη δεσπότης τούτου εἶναι, μάρτυρας παρέξομαι,” LYS. 23.8 (“ὃς ἔφη . . . εἶναι” parallel with “Εὐθύκριτον”). DEM.22.64: “καὶ μισεῖν τοὺς οἷόσπερ οὗτος. 25.30: εἴ τις . . . εἴποι τοῖς βιαζομένοις ἐξεῖναι λέγειν ἢ τοῖς ἐκ τοῦ δεσμωτηρίου ἢ τοῖς ὧν ἀπέκτεινεν ὁ δῆμος τοὺς πατέρας”. Ibid.: “πρόσεστι τοῖς οἷος οὗτός ἐστι τὴν φύσιν”. LYS. 23.8(see above). PLATO, Lach. 185D: “περὶ τοῦ ὅ”. Legg. 758 C: “τῶν ὧν προσήκει”. 761 E: “περὶ τοὺς ὧν”. 871 E: “κατεγγυάτω τὸν ᾧ ἂν ἐπισκήπτηται”. 873 D: “τῶν ὅσα”. Parmen.130C: “τῶν οἷοι”. Phaedo 75 B: “πάντα τὰ ἐν ταῖς αἰσθήσεσιν ἐκείνου . . . ὀρέγεται τοῦ ὃ ἔστιν ἴσον”. 92 D: “τοῦ ὅ”. Phaedr. 247 E: “ἐν τῷ ὅ”. Prot. 320 D: “τῶν ὅσα”. Rpb. 469 B: “τῶν ὅσοι”. 510 A (see above). Ibid.: “οὕτω τὸ ὁμοιωθὲν πρὸς τὸ ᾧ ὡμοιώθη”. PLAT. Soph. 241E: “περὶ τεχνῶν τῶν ὅσαι περὶ ταῦτά εἰσι”. Theaet. 204 D: “ἔν γε τοῖς ὅσα”. HDT.3.23: “μήτε ξύλον μήτε τῶν ὅσα ξύλου ἐστὶ ἐλαφρότερα. 131: ἔχων οὐδὲν τ ῶν ὅσα περὶ τὴν τέχνην ἐστὶ ἐργαλήια. 133: οὐδενὸς τῶν ὅσαἐς αἰσχύνην ἐστὶ φέροντα”. AESCHYL. Suppl. 1047: “ὅ τί τοι μόρσιμόν ἐστιν, τὸ γένοιτ᾽ ἄν” (528). PIND. O. 6.74-6: “μῶμος . . . κρέμαται” . . . | “τοῖς, οἷς ποτε πρώτοις” . . . | . . . “ποτιστάξῃ χάρις εὐκλέα μορφάν”. P. 3.88-91 (528). THEOGN. 33-4: “ καὶ μετὰ τοῖσιν πῖνε καὶ ἔσθιε, καὶ μετὰ τοῖσιν
ἵζε, καὶ ἅνδινε τοῖς, ὧν μεγάλη δύναμις
”. HOM. Od. 1.219-20: “ὃς ἀποτμότατος γένετο” . . . | “τοῦ μ᾽ ἔκ φασι γενέσθαι. 2.116: τὰ φρονέουσ᾽ ἀνὰ θυμόν, ἅ οἱ πέρι δῶκεν Ἀθήνη. 6.28: τὰ δὲ τοῖσι παρασχέμεν, οἵ κέ σ᾽ ἄγωνται. 7.211-2: οὕς τινας . . . τοῖσιν. 17.383: τῶν οἵ. 19.7-8: τοῖσιν” . . . | “οἷα”. Il. 1.271-2 (see above). 4.232-3: “οὓς μὲν σπεύδοντας ἴδοι” . . . | “τοὺς μάλα θαρσύνεσκε. 9.74-5: τῷ πείσεαι ὅς κεν ἀρίστην” | “βουλὴν βουλεύσῃ”.
Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. New York. American Book Company. 1900.
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