Strong G5100τις
one
- Transliteration
- tis
- Pronunciation
- tis
- Morphology
- Greek Indefinite Pronoun
Definition
An enclitic indefinite pronoun;
some or any person or object: - a (kind of) any (man thing thing at all) certain (thing) divers he (every) man one (X thing) ought + partly some (man -body -thing -what) (+ that no-) thing what (-soever) X wherewith whom [-soever] whose ([-soever]).
some or any person or object: - a (kind of) any (man thing thing at all) certain (thing) divers he (every) man one (X thing) ought + partly some (man -body -thing -what) (+ that no-) thing what (-soever) X wherewith whom [-soever] whose ([-soever]).
Detailed definition
τις, neut., τι, genitive, τινός,
enclitic indefinite pron., related to interrog. τίς as πού, πως, ποτέ to ποῦ, πῶς, πότε.
I. As subst.,
1. one, a certain one: Luk.9:49, Jhn.11:1, Act.5:25, al.; pl., τίνες, certain, some: Luk.13:1, Act.15:1, Rom.3:8, al.
2. someone, anyone, something, anything: Mat.12:29, Mrk.9:30, Luk.8:46, Jhn.2:25, Act.17:25, Rom.5:7, al.; = indef., one (French on), Mrk.8:4, Jhn.2:25, Rom.8:24, al.; pl., τινες, some, Mrk.14:4, al.
II. II. As adj.,
1. a certain: Mat.18:12, Luk.1:5 8:27, Act.3:2, al.; with proper names, Mrk.15:21, Luk.23:26, al.; with genitive partit., Luk.7:19, al.
2. some: Mrk.16:[8], Jhn.5:14, Act.17:21 24:24, Heb.11:40, al.
(AS)
enclitic indefinite pron., related to interrog. τίς as πού, πως, ποτέ to ποῦ, πῶς, πότε.
I. As subst.,
1. one, a certain one: Luk.9:49, Jhn.11:1, Act.5:25, al.; pl., τίνες, certain, some: Luk.13:1, Act.15:1, Rom.3:8, al.
2. someone, anyone, something, anything: Mat.12:29, Mrk.9:30, Luk.8:46, Jhn.2:25, Act.17:25, Rom.5:7, al.; = indef., one (French on), Mrk.8:4, Jhn.2:25, Rom.8:24, al.; pl., τινες, some, Mrk.14:4, al.
II. II. As adj.,
1. a certain: Mat.18:12, Luk.1:5 8:27, Act.3:2, al.; with proper names, Mrk.15:21, Luk.23:26, al.; with genitive partit., Luk.7:19, al.
2. some: Mrk.16:[8], Jhn.5:14, Act.17:21 24:24, Heb.11:40, al.
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5100 appears in 497 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- man119
- certain109
- some67
- any65
- thing35
- one33
- ought7
- something5
- somewhat5
- he4
- whatsoever4
- that4
First verses
- Matthew 5:23Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
- Matthew 8:28And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
- Matthew 9:3And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.
- Matthew 11:27All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
- Matthew 12:19He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.
- Matthew 12:29Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
- Matthew 12:38Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
- Matthew 12:47Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
- Matthew 16:24Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
- Matthew 16:28Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
- Matthew 18:12How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
- Matthew 18:28But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
- Matthew 20:20Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
- Matthew 21:3And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.
- Matthew 21:33Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
- Matthew 22:24Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
- Matthew 22:46And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
- Matthew 24:4And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
- Matthew 24:17Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
- Matthew 24:23Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
τις,
τι, Indef. pronoun any one, any thing, enclitic through all cases (for exceptions see below):—but τί; τί; Interrog. pronoun who? what?, oxytone in the monosyllable cases, paroxytone in the others:—Dialectal forms: [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Cypria)] σις (si se) [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“Inscription Cyprian dialect” 135.10 H.; 4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus)] σις (with ?? for σ) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 5(2).262.25 (Mantinea, 5th c.BC))]; Thess. κις [Refs ([prev. work]9(2).515.12 (from Larissa), 1226.4, 1229.27 (from Phalanna), _plural_ κινες [prev. work]517.41 (from Larissa))], neuter κι in διεκί, ποκκί (which see); neuter plural Doric dialect σά, Boeotian dialect τά, Aeolic dialect dative τίω, τίοισι (see. infr. B). (I.-[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] q[uglide]i-, cf. Latin quis, quid, etc.; for σά, τά, see at {ἄσσα}, σά μά; with τέο (see. infr. B) cf. OSlav. genitive česo)
A Indef. pronoun τις, τι, genitive Ionic dialect τεο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.305, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.58)]; more frequently τευ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.388, +others, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.30, +others, 5th c.BC: Melissus Philosophus 7, etc.)]; Trag. and Attic dialect του [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 21, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 329, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.70, etc. (sometimes _feminine_, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 290, “OT” 1107 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 370, etc.))]; του is rare after [NT+4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC, never in LXX or “NT”)], but found in [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“IG” 12(5).798.17 (Tenos, 3rd c.BC), “PCair.Zen.” 250.6, 647.23 (3rd c.BC), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.23.3)], revived by the Atticists, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 8.29, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fabius Maximus” 20, etc.)]; τινος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.90, “IG” 12.16.17, 65.41, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 5, “Ch.” 102, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 698, +others, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.109, +others (“Rh.Mus.” 72.483), etc.)]; dative Ionic dialect τεῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.227, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.502, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.48, 5.86)]; Trag. and Attic dialect τῳ (also in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.299, 12.328, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.308, 20.297, +others, always in _masculine_) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 1045, “IG” 12.39.54, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 18.45; as _feminine_, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 472, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 80, etc.)]; τινι [Refs 8th c.BC+ ((8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] in the form οὔ τινι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.68, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.96) 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.26, +others, 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 17.12, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.114 (elsewhere _feminine_, 2.62, 3.69, 83, 4.113), 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 1041, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 443, 495, etc.)]; accusative τινα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.62, 5.761, etc.)], neuter τι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (2.122, etc.: dual τινε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.26, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 237d, “Prm.” 143c, 149e)]: plural τινες [Refs 8th c.BC+ ((8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus only in οὔ τινες 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.279, 17.587 and οἵτινες (see. ὅστις)))]; Doric dialect τινεν [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“SIG” 527.127 (Drerus, 3rd c.BC))]; nominative and accusative neuter τινα (ὅτινα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.450))], never in Trag., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus, or 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, _falsa lectio_ in 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.74, first in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 163d, “Ep.” 325a, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 47.63, 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “adv. Athenogenem” 19, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 110, 4th c.BC: Sotades Comicus 1.22, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1094a5, “IG” 42(1).121.35 (Epid., 4th c.BC), etc.)]; ἄσσα (which see) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.218)], never in Trag. or [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus)]; Attic dialect ἄττα first in [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.113, 2.100, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 173, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 400a, etc., never in LXX, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus)], revived by the Atticists, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 3, etc.)]; genitive Ionic dialect τεων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.175, 5.57, τεῶν conjecture for γε ῶν in 4.76)]; τινων not in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, first in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 977 (Lyric poetry))]; dative τισι, τισιν, first in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.113, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Atheniensium” 1.18)]; N.-W. Doric dialect τινοις [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“GDI” 1409.5 (Delph., 3rd c.BC))]; Ionic dialect τεοισι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.113, 9.27)] (for τεοις and τεον see at {τεός}); accusative τινας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.735, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.371 (also in οὕστινας, ὅτινας, see at {ὅστις}), etc.)]; neuter τινα (see. above):—any one, any thing, some one, some thing; and as adjective any, some, and serving as the Indef. Article a, an; θεός νύ τίς ἐστι κοτήεις [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.191; καί τις θεὸς ἡγεμόνευεν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.142; οὐδέ τις αὐτὸν ἠείδη δμώων [prev. work] 205; ἤ τι ὀϊσάμενος, ἢ.. [prev. work] 339; μή τίς μοι ὑποδείσας ἀναδύη [prev. work] 377, compare 405 - 410; εἴ τινά που μετ᾽ ὄεσσι λάβοι [prev. work] 418, compare 421, +others; τις θεός construed as if τις θεῶν, 19.40, compare 11.502, “IG” 12.94.19, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1039.)]
A.II special usages:
A.II.1 some one (of many), i.e. many a one, ὧδε δέ τις εἴπεσκεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.201, etc.)]: sometimes with meiosis, implying all or men,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (13.638, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.224)]; so in Prose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.49 near the end, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.37, etc.)]
A.II.2 any one concerned, every one, εὖ μέν τις δόρυ θηξάσθω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.382)]; ἀλλά τις αὐτὸς ἴτω let every man come himself,[Refs (17.254; ἵνα τις στυγέῃσι καὶ ἄλλος 8.515, compare 16.209, 17.227, +others)]; so in Trag. and Attic dialect, even with the imperative, τοῦτό τις.. ἴστω S [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Aj.” 417 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 346, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1187; ἀγορεύω τινὶ ἐμὲ μὴ βασανίζειν [prev. author] “Ra.” 628)]; τοὺς ξυμμάχους αὐτόν τινα κολάζειν that every man should himself chastise his own allies, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.40, compare 6.77; ὅ τί τις ἐδύνατο [prev. author] 7.75)]; ἄμεινόν τινος better than any others, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.66, compare 19.35)]:—this is more fully expressed by adding other pronominal words, τις ἕκαστος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.65, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.31, etc.; πᾶς τις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1205, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.80, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.94, etc.; ἅπας τις 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.113, etc.; οὐδέν τι μᾶλλον [prev. author] 4.118)]. In these senses, τις is frequently combined with plural words, οἱ κακοὶ.. οὐκ ἴσασι, πρίν τις ἐκβάλῃ, for πρὶν ἐκβάλωσι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 965)]; οἷς ἂν ἐπίω, ἧσσόν τις πρόσεισι, for ἧσσον προσίασι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.85; ἐτόλμα τις.., ὁρῶντες [prev. author] 2.53, compare 7.75)]; especially after εἴ or ἤν τις, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.62, +others)]
A.II.3 in reference to a definite person, whom one wishes to avoid naming, οὐκ ἔφασαν ἰέναι, ἐὰν μή τις χρήματα διδῷ (i.e. Cyrus) [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “An.” 1.4.12, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 552, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.122)]; so also euphemistic for something bad, ἤν τι ποιῶμεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.74; ἂν οὗτός τι πάθῃ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.11)]: hence for the 1st pers. or 2nd pers. pronoun, ἅ τιν᾽ οὐ πείσεσθαι ὀΐω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.289, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 751)]; ποῖ τις τρέψετα; for ποῖ τρέψομα; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 603, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 245 (Lyric poetry), 1138, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.59, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.40, 5.7.31, etc.)]
A.II.4 indefinitely, where we say they, French on, sometimes with an ironical force, φοβεῖταί τις [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 59 (Lyric poetry); μισεῖ τις ἐκεῖνον 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.8)]; as vocative, τὸν Πλοῦτον ἔξω τις κάλει call P. out, somebody, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1196.)]
A.II.5 τις, τι may be opposed, expressly or by implication, to οὐδείς, οὐδέν, and mean somebody, something, by meiosis for some great one, some great thing, ηὔχεις τις εἶναι you boasted that you were somebody, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 939; εἰσὶν ὅμως τινὲς οἱ εὐδοκιμοῦντες 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1293b13; τὸ δοκεῖν τιν᾽ εἶναι 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 156; τὸ δοκεῖν τινὲς εἶναι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.213; ὡς σὲ μὲν ἐν τῇ πόλει δεῖ τινὰ φαίνεσθαι, τὴν πόλιν δ᾽ ἐν τοῖς Ἕλλησι μηδενὸς ἀξίαν εἶναι [prev. author] 10.71)]; κἠγών τις φαίνομαι ἦμεν after all I too am somebody, [NT+3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 11.79, cf. NT.Act.5.36)]; also in neuter, οἴονταί τι εἶναι ὄντες οὐδενὸς ἄξιοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 41e, compare “Phd.” 63c, “Phdr.” 243a, “Euthd.” 303c, etc.:— so τι λέγειν to be near the mark, opposed to οὐδὲν λέγειν, [prev. author] “Prt.” 339c, “R.” 329e, “Phdr.” 260a, etc.; ἵνα καὶ εἰδῶμεν εἴ τι ὅδε λέγει [prev. author] “Cra.” 407e; οἴεσθέ τι ποιεῖν, οὐδὲν ποιοῦντες [prev. author] “Smp.” 173c.)]
A.II.5.b τις is sometimes opposed to to another word, ἀελλοπόδων μέν τιν᾽ εὐφραίνοισιν ἵππων τιμαί.., τέρπεται δὲ καί τις.. [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 221; τισὶ τῶν πολιτῶν ἀποροῦσι συνεξέδωκε θυγατέρας.., τοὺς δ᾽ ἐλύσατο ἐκ τῶν πολεμίων 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.59; μέρος μέν τι σιδήρου, μέρος δέ τι ὀστράκινον LXX.Dan.2.33 (more frequently with the Article, see below 10 c))]; ἔστιν οὖν οὐ πᾶν τὸ ταχύ, ἀλλά τι (sic codices BT) αὐτοῦ ἀγαστόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 412c; ἀναγκαῖον ἤτοι πᾶσι τοῖς πολίταις ἀποδίδοσθαι πάσας ταύτας τὰς κρίσεις ἢ τισὶ πάσας.. ἢ τινὰς μὲν αὐτῶν πᾶσι τινὰς δὲ τισίν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1298a9, compare 1277a23)]; τὸ μεῖζον τοῦθ᾽ ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἑτέρου λέγεται· τινὸς γὰρ λέγεται μεῖζον greater than something, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cat.” 6a38; τὸ πρώτως ὂν καὶ οὐ τὶ ὂν ἀλλ᾽ ὂν ἁπλῶς [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1028a30)]; πότερον τῷ τυχόντι ἢ τισί; [Refs ([prev. author] “Pol.” 1269a26.)]
A.II.6 with (Proper name)s τις commonly signifies one named so-and-so, ἦν δέ τις ἐν Τρώεσσι Δάρης [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.9, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.4, etc.)]; with a sense of contempt, Θερσίτης τις ἦν there was one Thersites, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 442.)]
A.II.6.b one of the same sort, converting the (Proper name) into an appellative, ἤ τις Ἀπόλλων ἢ Πάν an Apollo or a Pan, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 55 (_anapaest meter_))]; [πόλιες] ταὶ μέλονται πρός τινος ἢ Διὸς ἢ γλαυκᾶς Ἀθάνας Lyric poetry in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“PVat.” 11v xi7; Σκύλλαν τινά 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1233, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 181, “Av.” 512, “Ra.” 912: so also ὥς τις ἥλιος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 288)]; ἰσθμόν τιν᾽ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 647.)]
A.II.7 with adjectives τις combines to express the idea of a substantive used as predicate, ὥς τις θαρσαλέος καὶ ἀναιδής ἐσσι προΐκτης a bold and impudent beggar, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.449, compare 18.382, 20.140, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.220)]; ἐγώ τις, ὡς ἔοικε, δυσμαθής a dullard, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 358a, compare “Prt.” 340e)]; φόβου πλέα τις εἶ a coward, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 696, compare “Th.” 979 (Lyric poetry), “Ag.” 1140 (Lyric poetry))]; ὡς ταχεῖά τις.. χάρις διαρρεῖ in what swift fashion (={ταχέως πως}), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1266, compare “OT” 618, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.198)]; δεινόν τι ποιεύμενος thinking it a terrible thing, [Refs ([prev. author] 3.155, 5.33.)]
A.II.8 with numerals and adjectives expressing number, size, or the like, εἷς δέ τις ἀρχὸς ἀνὴρ.. ἔστω some one man, [NT+8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.144; ἕνα τιν᾽ ἂν καθεῖσεν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 911; δώσει δέ τι ἕν γε φέρεσθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.83; τινὰ μίαν νύκτα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.61; προσκαλεσάμενός τινας δύο τῶν ἑκατονταρχῶν NT.Act.23.23)]; sometimes the τις softens the definiteness of the numeral, ἑπτά τινες some seven, seven or so, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.34; ἐς διακοσίους τινάς [prev. author] 3.111, compare 7.87, 8.21)]; so without an actual numeral, ἡμέρας τινάς some days, i.e. several, [Refs ([prev. author] 3.52)]; στρατῷ τινι of a certain amount, considerable, [Refs ([prev. author] 8.3)]; ἐνιαυτόν τινα a year or so, [Refs ([prev. author] 3.68)]; so οὐ πολλοί τινες, τινὲς οὐ πολλοί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 510, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.94, etc.)]; ὀλίγοι τινές or τινὲς ὀλίγοι [Refs ([prev. author] 2.17, 3.7)]; οὔ τινα πολλὸν χρόνον no very long time, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.48; τις στρατιὰ οὐ πολλή 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.61)]; so also ὅσσος τις χρυσός what a store of gold, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.45, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.193, 2.18, etc.; κόσοι τινές [prev. author] 7.234; πηλίκαι τινὲς τιμωρίαι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 20.3; πολλὸς γάρ τις ἔκειτο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.156; ἐκ πολλοῦ τευ χρόνου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.58.)]
A.II.9 with Pronominal words, ἀλλά τί μοι τόδε θυμὸς.. μερμηρίζει something, namely this, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.38, compare 380)]; οἷός τις what sort of a man, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.638 (uncertain reading), compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.348, 20.377, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 313a, etc.; ποῖός τις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 42, “OC” 1163, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.34, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.6.24, etc.; ὁποῖός τις [prev. author] “Cyr.” 2.2.2, +others; εὐτυχίη τις τοιήδε 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.139, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.1, etc.; τοιοῦτός τις [prev. author] “An.” 5.8.7.)]
A.II.10 with the Article,
A.II.10.a when a noun with the Article is in apposition with τις, as ὅταν δ᾽ ὁ κύριος παρῇ τις when the person in authority, whoever he be, is here, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 289)]; τοὺς αὐτοέντας.. τιμωρεῖν τινας (variant τινα) [Refs ([prev. author] “OT” 107.)]
A.II.10.b in Philosophic writers, τις is added to the Article to show that the Article is used to denote a particular individual who is not specified in the general formula, although he would be in the particular case, ὁ τὶς ἄνθρωπος the individual man (whoever he may be), this or that man, opposed to ἄνθρωπος (man in general), ὁ τὶς ἵππος, ἡ τὶς γραμματική, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Categoriae” 1b4, 8)]; τὸ τὶ μέγεθος, opposed to ὅλως τὸ μέγεθος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Pol.” 1283a4, compare 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 2.223; but in ἑνὸς γὰρ τό γε τὶ φήσεις σημεῖον εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 237d)], the Article is used as in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”)] cc. (which see) ὁ, ἡ, τό [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.5: later ὅ τις (or ὁ τὶς) much like{ὁ δεῖνα})], δεῦρο ὅ τις θεός, ὄφθητί μοι in a general formula of invocation, [Refs (“PMag.Par.” 1.236; αἴρω σε, ἥ τις βοτάνη [prev. work]287; εἰς τήν τινα κρείαν (to be read χρείαν) [prev. work]289.)]
A.II.10.c frequently in opposed clauses, ὁ μέν τις.., ὁ δὲ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1141, “Hec.” 624, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 99b, etc.; ὁ μέν τις.., ἄλλος δὲ.. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1407; ὁ μὲν.., ὁ δέ τις.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.15: _plural_, οἱ μέν τινες.., οἱ δὲ.. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.127, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.91; οἱ μέν τινες.., οἱ δὲ.., οἱ δέ τινες 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.10, etc.; οἱ μὲν.., οἱ δέ τινες.. [prev. work] 6.1.26)], etc.: also combined with other alternative words, ὁ μέν τις.., ὁ δέ τις.., ἕτερος δέ τις.. [Refs ([prev. author] “Smp.” 2.6)]; ὁ μὲν.., ἕτερος δέ τις.., ὁ δὲ.., etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 162f)]: also in neuter, τὸ μέν τι.., τὸ δέ τι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 358a; τὸ μέν τι.., τὸ δὲ.. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.40)]; in adverbial sense, τὸ μὲν.., τὸ δέ τι.. partly.., partly.. , [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.73.4)]; and τι remains unaltered even when the Article is plural, τὰ μέν τι μαχόμενοι, τὰ δὲ καὶ ἀναπαυόμενοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.1.14, compare “HG” 7.1.46)]; also τὸ δέ τι.. but in some measure.., without τὸ μέν preceding, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.107, compare 118, 7.48.)]
A.II.10.d later τις is used as in b above but without the Article, γράψον.. ὅτι τι καί τι εἴληφας that you have received such and such things, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 937.22 (3rd c.AD); κληρονόμους καταλείπω τὴν θυγατέρα μού τινα καὶ τὸν σύντροφον αὐτῆς τινα καί τινα [prev. work] 1034.2 (2nd c.AD))]; τίς τινι χαίρειν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (A to B greeting (in a draft letter),[prev. work] (2nd c.AD).)]
A.II the neuter τι is used,
A.II.a collectively, ἦν τι καὶ ἐν ταῖς Συρακούσαις there was a party.. , [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.48)]; so perhaps τῶν ἄλλων οὔ πέρ τι πεφυγμένον ἐστ᾽ Ἀφροδίτην, οὔτε θεῶν, οὔτ᾽ ἀνθρώπων no class, [Refs (hymnus ad Venerem 34)] (but masculine τις in [Refs (“hymnus ad Mercurium” 143).)]
A.II.b euphemistic for something bad, see above [Refs (3.)]
A.II.c joined with Verbs, somewhat, in any degree, at all, ἦ ῥά τί μοι κεχολώσεαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.421; παρεθάρρυνέ τι αὐτούς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.4.7, etc.: with _adjectives_ or Adverbs, οὕτω δή τι ἰσχυραί, οὕτω δή τι πολύγονον, etc., 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.12, 108, compare 4.52; so also ὀλίγον τι ἧσσον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.365; οὐδέ τι μᾶλλον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.123, etc.; ἧσσόν τι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.75, etc.)]; οὐ πάνυ τι, πολύ τι, σχεδόν τι, see at {πάνυ} [Refs (1.3, πολύς 111.1a, 2a, σχεδόν IV)]; also in conjunction with οὐδέν, μηδέν, οὐδέν τι πάντως [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.3)]; οὐδέν, μηδέν τι μᾶλλον, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 522, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 280; μηδέν τι λίαν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 1234:)] —also καί τι καὶ.. ὑποψίᾳ in part also from suspicion, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.107; καί πού τι καί 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.28.)]
A.II.12 τίς τε frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ὡς ὅτε τίς τε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.33, 4.141, see τε 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]
A.II.13 ἤ τις ἢ οὐδείς few or none, next to none, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.140, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.45, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 47.5, 48.4)]; ἤ τι ἢ οὐδέν little or nothing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 17b; ἢ οὐδεὶς ἤ τις 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 41.62 (assuming variant).)]
A.II.14 τις is pleonastic in such phrases as οὐδέν τι or μηδέν τι, see above [Refs (11c.)]
A.II.14.b repeated in successive clauses, ὅσα λέγει τις ἢ πράσσειτις ἢψέγειν ἔχει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 689; εἴ τις δύο ἢ καὶ πλέους τις ἡμέρας λογίζεται [prev. author] “Tr.” 944 (where however κἄτι πλείους is probably conjecture),compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1218)] (whereas τις is sometimes omitted in the first clause, οὔτε φωνὴν οὔτε του μορφὴν βροτῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 21, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 3): but in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 734, ἔστι γάρ τις οὐ πρόσω.. πόλις τις)], the repetition is pleonastic, as also in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 57f (Lyric poetry, assuming variant).)]
A.II.15 τις is sometimes omitted, οὐδέ κεν ἔνθα τεόν γε μένος καὶ χεῖρας ὄνοιτο (i.e. τις) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.287)]; ὡς δ᾽ ἐν ὀνείρῳ οὐ δύναται (i.e. τις) φεύγοντα διώκειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (22.199, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1226 (Lyric poetry), “Leg.Gort.” 2.2, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 5.2, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 456d)]: τις must often be supplied from what goes before,[Refs ([prev. work] 478c, “Prt.” 319d.)]
A.II.15.b sometimes also τις is omitted before a genitive case which must depend upon it, as ἢ [τις] τᾶς ἀσώτου Σισυφιδᾶν γενεᾶς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 189 (Lyric poetry))]; ἢν γαμῇ ποτ᾽ αὐτὸς ἢ [τις] τῶν ξυγγενῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1128; ἐν τῶν πόλεων “IG” 12.56.14.--Cf. ὅστις, οὔτις, μήτις, ἄλλο τι.)]
A.III Accentuation and position of τις:
A.III.1 accentuation: τις is normally enclitic, but in certain uses is orthotone, i.e. theoretically oxytone (τίς, τινά, τινές, τινῶν, etc.,[Refs 4th c.AD+ (compare 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 1.373 H.) and barytone when followed by another word (τὶς)] or τις, τινὰ, τινὲς, τινῶν, etc.). According to [Refs (Scholia 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus p.240 H. its orthotone accent is τίς (not τὶς), τίνα, τίνες, etc. The orthotone form is used in codices:)]
A.III.1.a at the beginning of a sentence, τίς ἔνδον..; is any one within? [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 654 (τὶς conjecture Hermann))]; τί φημ; ={λέγω τι}; am I saying anything? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 865, “OT” 1471)]; <τίς ἦλθ;> ἦλθέ τις has anybody come? [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“Somebody” has come, Scholia 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus [same place])]; τὶς κάθηται, τὶς περιπατεῖ, so and so is sitting (walking), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 8.97)]; τὶς αἰπόλος καλούμενος Κομάτας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.78; τίς ποτε οἰκοδεσπότης.. ἐκοπία 5th-4th c.BC: Aesopus Fabularum Scriptor in “Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum” iii; or after a pause, πῶς γὰρ ἄν, ἔφην ἐγώ, ὦ βέλτιστε, τὶς ἀποκρίναιτο 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 337e)]; τι οὖν (τὶς ἂν εἴποι) ταῦτα λέγει; [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.14 (variant); ἔντοσθεν δὲ γυνά, τι θεῶν δαίδαλμα 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.32; οὐ γυμνὸν τὸ φίλαμα, τι δ᾽ ὦ ξένε καὶ πλέον ἑξεῖς 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 1.5 (variant for{τὺ}).)]
A.III.1.b when τις is opposed to to another τις or to some other word, τισὶ μὲν συμφέρει, τισὶ δ᾽ οὐ συμφέρει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1284b40, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.92, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 49a, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.2; τινὲς μὲν οὖν.., ἡμεῖς δὲ.. 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.1; τὸ τὶ μὲν ψεῦδος ἔχον, τὶ δὲ ἀληθές 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 8.127; ἀλλὰ τινὰ μὲν.., τινὰ δὲ.. 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 14.6; ποτὲ μὲν πρὸς πάντα, ποτὲ δὲ πρὸς τινά 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.48: without such opposition, τοῦτ᾽ εἰς ἀνίαν τοὔπος ἔρχεται τινί)] for a certain person, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1138)]. Codices are not consistent; in signification[Refs (11.5a, 10c, 13)] they make it enclitic; in signification [Refs (11.5b sometimes enclitic, sometimes orthotone (see. above))]; sometimes enclitic and orthotone in the same sentence, πάντα δὲ τὰ γιγνόμενα ὑπό τέ τινος γίγνεται καὶ ἔκ τινος καὶ τί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1032a14, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 165c.)]
A.III.2 position:
A.III.2.a τις is rarely first word in the sentence, and rarely follows a pause (see. above [Refs (111.1a, b))]; it may stand second word, ἔσκε τις ἐνθάδε μάντις ἀνήρ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.508, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.515, 23.331)]; but in general its position is not far before or after the word to which it belongs in sense, ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε δή τινα μάντιν ἐρείομεν [Refs (1.62; φυλακὴ δέ τις ἔμπεδος ἔστω 8.521.)]
A.III.2.b in Ionic dialect Prose it sometimes stands between its genitive and the Article of that genitive, τῶν τις Περσέων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.85; τῶν τις ἱρέων [prev. author] 2.38; τῶν τινες Φοινίκων [prev. author] 8.90; ἐς τῶν τι ἄλλο στομάτων τοῦ Νείλου [prev. author] 2.179)]; so also in late Prose, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.108d, 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1402.18, 1659.27, 1676.1.)]
A.III.2.c it stands between the Article and substantive in signification[Refs 5th c.BC+ (11.10b.)]
A.III.2.d τίς τι is the correct order, not τί τις, “IG” 12.110.46, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.10, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.1.14 (codices dett.), 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 22.22, etc.
A.III.2.e whereas in _Attic dialect_ the order ἐάν τις is compulsory, in _Doric dialect_ the usual order is αἴ τίς κα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Leg.Gort.” 9.43, +others, “Tab.Heracl.” 1.105, +others (but αἴ κά τις 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 35, 159; αἰ δέ κα μή τις “Leg.Gort.” 5.13))]: later Doric dialect εἴ τί κα [Refs (“GDI” 2101.3, +others)]; καἴ τι ἂν (={καὶ εἴ τι ἂν}) [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“IG” 5(1).1390.50 (Andania, 1st c.BC)], see below [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 11.1b))]:—this Doric dialect order influenced the Koine, as in the rare εἴ τις ἂν [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Tiberius Gracchus” 15.)]
τι, Indef. pronoun any one, any thing, enclitic through all cases (for exceptions see below):—but τί; τί; Interrog. pronoun who? what?, oxytone in the monosyllable cases, paroxytone in the others:—Dialectal forms: [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Cypria)] σις (si se) [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“Inscription Cyprian dialect” 135.10 H.; 4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus)] σις (with ?? for σ) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 5(2).262.25 (Mantinea, 5th c.BC))]; Thess. κις [Refs ([prev. work]9(2).515.12 (from Larissa), 1226.4, 1229.27 (from Phalanna), _plural_ κινες [prev. work]517.41 (from Larissa))], neuter κι in διεκί, ποκκί (which see); neuter plural Doric dialect σά, Boeotian dialect τά, Aeolic dialect dative τίω, τίοισι (see. infr. B). (I.-[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] q[uglide]i-, cf. Latin quis, quid, etc.; for σά, τά, see at {ἄσσα}, σά μά; with τέο (see. infr. B) cf. OSlav. genitive česo)
A Indef. pronoun τις, τι, genitive Ionic dialect τεο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.305, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.58)]; more frequently τευ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.388, +others, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.30, +others, 5th c.BC: Melissus Philosophus 7, etc.)]; Trag. and Attic dialect του [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 21, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 329, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.70, etc. (sometimes _feminine_, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 290, “OT” 1107 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 370, etc.))]; του is rare after [NT+4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC, never in LXX or “NT”)], but found in [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“IG” 12(5).798.17 (Tenos, 3rd c.BC), “PCair.Zen.” 250.6, 647.23 (3rd c.BC), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.23.3)], revived by the Atticists, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 8.29, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fabius Maximus” 20, etc.)]; τινος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.90, “IG” 12.16.17, 65.41, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 5, “Ch.” 102, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 698, +others, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.109, +others (“Rh.Mus.” 72.483), etc.)]; dative Ionic dialect τεῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.227, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.502, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.48, 5.86)]; Trag. and Attic dialect τῳ (also in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.299, 12.328, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.308, 20.297, +others, always in _masculine_) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 1045, “IG” 12.39.54, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 18.45; as _feminine_, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 472, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 80, etc.)]; τινι [Refs 8th c.BC+ ((8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] in the form οὔ τινι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.68, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.96) 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.26, +others, 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 17.12, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.114 (elsewhere _feminine_, 2.62, 3.69, 83, 4.113), 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 1041, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 443, 495, etc.)]; accusative τινα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.62, 5.761, etc.)], neuter τι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (2.122, etc.: dual τινε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.26, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 237d, “Prm.” 143c, 149e)]: plural τινες [Refs 8th c.BC+ ((8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus only in οὔ τινες 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.279, 17.587 and οἵτινες (see. ὅστις)))]; Doric dialect τινεν [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“SIG” 527.127 (Drerus, 3rd c.BC))]; nominative and accusative neuter τινα (ὅτινα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.450))], never in Trag., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus, or 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, _falsa lectio_ in 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.74, first in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 163d, “Ep.” 325a, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 47.63, 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “adv. Athenogenem” 19, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 110, 4th c.BC: Sotades Comicus 1.22, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1094a5, “IG” 42(1).121.35 (Epid., 4th c.BC), etc.)]; ἄσσα (which see) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.218)], never in Trag. or [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus)]; Attic dialect ἄττα first in [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.113, 2.100, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 173, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 400a, etc., never in LXX, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus)], revived by the Atticists, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 3, etc.)]; genitive Ionic dialect τεων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.175, 5.57, τεῶν conjecture for γε ῶν in 4.76)]; τινων not in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, first in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 977 (Lyric poetry))]; dative τισι, τισιν, first in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.113, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Atheniensium” 1.18)]; N.-W. Doric dialect τινοις [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“GDI” 1409.5 (Delph., 3rd c.BC))]; Ionic dialect τεοισι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.113, 9.27)] (for τεοις and τεον see at {τεός}); accusative τινας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.735, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.371 (also in οὕστινας, ὅτινας, see at {ὅστις}), etc.)]; neuter τινα (see. above):—any one, any thing, some one, some thing; and as adjective any, some, and serving as the Indef. Article a, an; θεός νύ τίς ἐστι κοτήεις [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.191; καί τις θεὸς ἡγεμόνευεν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.142; οὐδέ τις αὐτὸν ἠείδη δμώων [prev. work] 205; ἤ τι ὀϊσάμενος, ἢ.. [prev. work] 339; μή τίς μοι ὑποδείσας ἀναδύη [prev. work] 377, compare 405 - 410; εἴ τινά που μετ᾽ ὄεσσι λάβοι [prev. work] 418, compare 421, +others; τις θεός construed as if τις θεῶν, 19.40, compare 11.502, “IG” 12.94.19, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1039.)]
A.II special usages:
A.II.1 some one (of many), i.e. many a one, ὧδε δέ τις εἴπεσκεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.201, etc.)]: sometimes with meiosis, implying all or men,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (13.638, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.224)]; so in Prose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.49 near the end, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.37, etc.)]
A.II.2 any one concerned, every one, εὖ μέν τις δόρυ θηξάσθω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.382)]; ἀλλά τις αὐτὸς ἴτω let every man come himself,[Refs (17.254; ἵνα τις στυγέῃσι καὶ ἄλλος 8.515, compare 16.209, 17.227, +others)]; so in Trag. and Attic dialect, even with the imperative, τοῦτό τις.. ἴστω S [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Aj.” 417 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 346, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1187; ἀγορεύω τινὶ ἐμὲ μὴ βασανίζειν [prev. author] “Ra.” 628)]; τοὺς ξυμμάχους αὐτόν τινα κολάζειν that every man should himself chastise his own allies, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.40, compare 6.77; ὅ τί τις ἐδύνατο [prev. author] 7.75)]; ἄμεινόν τινος better than any others, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.66, compare 19.35)]:—this is more fully expressed by adding other pronominal words, τις ἕκαστος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.65, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.31, etc.; πᾶς τις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1205, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.80, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.94, etc.; ἅπας τις 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.113, etc.; οὐδέν τι μᾶλλον [prev. author] 4.118)]. In these senses, τις is frequently combined with plural words, οἱ κακοὶ.. οὐκ ἴσασι, πρίν τις ἐκβάλῃ, for πρὶν ἐκβάλωσι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 965)]; οἷς ἂν ἐπίω, ἧσσόν τις πρόσεισι, for ἧσσον προσίασι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.85; ἐτόλμα τις.., ὁρῶντες [prev. author] 2.53, compare 7.75)]; especially after εἴ or ἤν τις, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.62, +others)]
A.II.3 in reference to a definite person, whom one wishes to avoid naming, οὐκ ἔφασαν ἰέναι, ἐὰν μή τις χρήματα διδῷ (i.e. Cyrus) [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “An.” 1.4.12, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 552, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.122)]; so also euphemistic for something bad, ἤν τι ποιῶμεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.74; ἂν οὗτός τι πάθῃ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.11)]: hence for the 1st pers. or 2nd pers. pronoun, ἅ τιν᾽ οὐ πείσεσθαι ὀΐω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.289, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 751)]; ποῖ τις τρέψετα; for ποῖ τρέψομα; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 603, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 245 (Lyric poetry), 1138, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.59, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.40, 5.7.31, etc.)]
A.II.4 indefinitely, where we say they, French on, sometimes with an ironical force, φοβεῖταί τις [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 59 (Lyric poetry); μισεῖ τις ἐκεῖνον 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.8)]; as vocative, τὸν Πλοῦτον ἔξω τις κάλει call P. out, somebody, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1196.)]
A.II.5 τις, τι may be opposed, expressly or by implication, to οὐδείς, οὐδέν, and mean somebody, something, by meiosis for some great one, some great thing, ηὔχεις τις εἶναι you boasted that you were somebody, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 939; εἰσὶν ὅμως τινὲς οἱ εὐδοκιμοῦντες 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1293b13; τὸ δοκεῖν τιν᾽ εἶναι 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 156; τὸ δοκεῖν τινὲς εἶναι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.213; ὡς σὲ μὲν ἐν τῇ πόλει δεῖ τινὰ φαίνεσθαι, τὴν πόλιν δ᾽ ἐν τοῖς Ἕλλησι μηδενὸς ἀξίαν εἶναι [prev. author] 10.71)]; κἠγών τις φαίνομαι ἦμεν after all I too am somebody, [NT+3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 11.79, cf. NT.Act.5.36)]; also in neuter, οἴονταί τι εἶναι ὄντες οὐδενὸς ἄξιοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 41e, compare “Phd.” 63c, “Phdr.” 243a, “Euthd.” 303c, etc.:— so τι λέγειν to be near the mark, opposed to οὐδὲν λέγειν, [prev. author] “Prt.” 339c, “R.” 329e, “Phdr.” 260a, etc.; ἵνα καὶ εἰδῶμεν εἴ τι ὅδε λέγει [prev. author] “Cra.” 407e; οἴεσθέ τι ποιεῖν, οὐδὲν ποιοῦντες [prev. author] “Smp.” 173c.)]
A.II.5.b τις is sometimes opposed to to another word, ἀελλοπόδων μέν τιν᾽ εὐφραίνοισιν ἵππων τιμαί.., τέρπεται δὲ καί τις.. [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 221; τισὶ τῶν πολιτῶν ἀποροῦσι συνεξέδωκε θυγατέρας.., τοὺς δ᾽ ἐλύσατο ἐκ τῶν πολεμίων 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.59; μέρος μέν τι σιδήρου, μέρος δέ τι ὀστράκινον LXX.Dan.2.33 (more frequently with the Article, see below 10 c))]; ἔστιν οὖν οὐ πᾶν τὸ ταχύ, ἀλλά τι (sic codices BT) αὐτοῦ ἀγαστόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 412c; ἀναγκαῖον ἤτοι πᾶσι τοῖς πολίταις ἀποδίδοσθαι πάσας ταύτας τὰς κρίσεις ἢ τισὶ πάσας.. ἢ τινὰς μὲν αὐτῶν πᾶσι τινὰς δὲ τισίν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1298a9, compare 1277a23)]; τὸ μεῖζον τοῦθ᾽ ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἑτέρου λέγεται· τινὸς γὰρ λέγεται μεῖζον greater than something, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cat.” 6a38; τὸ πρώτως ὂν καὶ οὐ τὶ ὂν ἀλλ᾽ ὂν ἁπλῶς [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1028a30)]; πότερον τῷ τυχόντι ἢ τισί; [Refs ([prev. author] “Pol.” 1269a26.)]
A.II.6 with (Proper name)s τις commonly signifies one named so-and-so, ἦν δέ τις ἐν Τρώεσσι Δάρης [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.9, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.4, etc.)]; with a sense of contempt, Θερσίτης τις ἦν there was one Thersites, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 442.)]
A.II.6.b one of the same sort, converting the (Proper name) into an appellative, ἤ τις Ἀπόλλων ἢ Πάν an Apollo or a Pan, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 55 (_anapaest meter_))]; [πόλιες] ταὶ μέλονται πρός τινος ἢ Διὸς ἢ γλαυκᾶς Ἀθάνας Lyric poetry in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“PVat.” 11v xi7; Σκύλλαν τινά 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1233, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 181, “Av.” 512, “Ra.” 912: so also ὥς τις ἥλιος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 288)]; ἰσθμόν τιν᾽ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 647.)]
A.II.7 with adjectives τις combines to express the idea of a substantive used as predicate, ὥς τις θαρσαλέος καὶ ἀναιδής ἐσσι προΐκτης a bold and impudent beggar, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.449, compare 18.382, 20.140, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.220)]; ἐγώ τις, ὡς ἔοικε, δυσμαθής a dullard, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 358a, compare “Prt.” 340e)]; φόβου πλέα τις εἶ a coward, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 696, compare “Th.” 979 (Lyric poetry), “Ag.” 1140 (Lyric poetry))]; ὡς ταχεῖά τις.. χάρις διαρρεῖ in what swift fashion (={ταχέως πως}), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1266, compare “OT” 618, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.198)]; δεινόν τι ποιεύμενος thinking it a terrible thing, [Refs ([prev. author] 3.155, 5.33.)]
A.II.8 with numerals and adjectives expressing number, size, or the like, εἷς δέ τις ἀρχὸς ἀνὴρ.. ἔστω some one man, [NT+8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.144; ἕνα τιν᾽ ἂν καθεῖσεν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 911; δώσει δέ τι ἕν γε φέρεσθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.83; τινὰ μίαν νύκτα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.61; προσκαλεσάμενός τινας δύο τῶν ἑκατονταρχῶν NT.Act.23.23)]; sometimes the τις softens the definiteness of the numeral, ἑπτά τινες some seven, seven or so, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.34; ἐς διακοσίους τινάς [prev. author] 3.111, compare 7.87, 8.21)]; so without an actual numeral, ἡμέρας τινάς some days, i.e. several, [Refs ([prev. author] 3.52)]; στρατῷ τινι of a certain amount, considerable, [Refs ([prev. author] 8.3)]; ἐνιαυτόν τινα a year or so, [Refs ([prev. author] 3.68)]; so οὐ πολλοί τινες, τινὲς οὐ πολλοί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 510, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.94, etc.)]; ὀλίγοι τινές or τινὲς ὀλίγοι [Refs ([prev. author] 2.17, 3.7)]; οὔ τινα πολλὸν χρόνον no very long time, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.48; τις στρατιὰ οὐ πολλή 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.61)]; so also ὅσσος τις χρυσός what a store of gold, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.45, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.193, 2.18, etc.; κόσοι τινές [prev. author] 7.234; πηλίκαι τινὲς τιμωρίαι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 20.3; πολλὸς γάρ τις ἔκειτο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.156; ἐκ πολλοῦ τευ χρόνου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.58.)]
A.II.9 with Pronominal words, ἀλλά τί μοι τόδε θυμὸς.. μερμηρίζει something, namely this, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.38, compare 380)]; οἷός τις what sort of a man, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.638 (uncertain reading), compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.348, 20.377, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 313a, etc.; ποῖός τις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 42, “OC” 1163, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.34, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.6.24, etc.; ὁποῖός τις [prev. author] “Cyr.” 2.2.2, +others; εὐτυχίη τις τοιήδε 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.139, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.1, etc.; τοιοῦτός τις [prev. author] “An.” 5.8.7.)]
A.II.10 with the Article,
A.II.10.a when a noun with the Article is in apposition with τις, as ὅταν δ᾽ ὁ κύριος παρῇ τις when the person in authority, whoever he be, is here, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 289)]; τοὺς αὐτοέντας.. τιμωρεῖν τινας (variant τινα) [Refs ([prev. author] “OT” 107.)]
A.II.10.b in Philosophic writers, τις is added to the Article to show that the Article is used to denote a particular individual who is not specified in the general formula, although he would be in the particular case, ὁ τὶς ἄνθρωπος the individual man (whoever he may be), this or that man, opposed to ἄνθρωπος (man in general), ὁ τὶς ἵππος, ἡ τὶς γραμματική, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Categoriae” 1b4, 8)]; τὸ τὶ μέγεθος, opposed to ὅλως τὸ μέγεθος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Pol.” 1283a4, compare 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 2.223; but in ἑνὸς γὰρ τό γε τὶ φήσεις σημεῖον εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 237d)], the Article is used as in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”)] cc. (which see) ὁ, ἡ, τό [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.5: later ὅ τις (or ὁ τὶς) much like{ὁ δεῖνα})], δεῦρο ὅ τις θεός, ὄφθητί μοι in a general formula of invocation, [Refs (“PMag.Par.” 1.236; αἴρω σε, ἥ τις βοτάνη [prev. work]287; εἰς τήν τινα κρείαν (to be read χρείαν) [prev. work]289.)]
A.II.10.c frequently in opposed clauses, ὁ μέν τις.., ὁ δὲ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1141, “Hec.” 624, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 99b, etc.; ὁ μέν τις.., ἄλλος δὲ.. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1407; ὁ μὲν.., ὁ δέ τις.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.15: _plural_, οἱ μέν τινες.., οἱ δὲ.. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.127, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.91; οἱ μέν τινες.., οἱ δὲ.., οἱ δέ τινες 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.10, etc.; οἱ μὲν.., οἱ δέ τινες.. [prev. work] 6.1.26)], etc.: also combined with other alternative words, ὁ μέν τις.., ὁ δέ τις.., ἕτερος δέ τις.. [Refs ([prev. author] “Smp.” 2.6)]; ὁ μὲν.., ἕτερος δέ τις.., ὁ δὲ.., etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 162f)]: also in neuter, τὸ μέν τι.., τὸ δέ τι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 358a; τὸ μέν τι.., τὸ δὲ.. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.40)]; in adverbial sense, τὸ μὲν.., τὸ δέ τι.. partly.., partly.. , [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.73.4)]; and τι remains unaltered even when the Article is plural, τὰ μέν τι μαχόμενοι, τὰ δὲ καὶ ἀναπαυόμενοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.1.14, compare “HG” 7.1.46)]; also τὸ δέ τι.. but in some measure.., without τὸ μέν preceding, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.107, compare 118, 7.48.)]
A.II.10.d later τις is used as in b above but without the Article, γράψον.. ὅτι τι καί τι εἴληφας that you have received such and such things, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 937.22 (3rd c.AD); κληρονόμους καταλείπω τὴν θυγατέρα μού τινα καὶ τὸν σύντροφον αὐτῆς τινα καί τινα [prev. work] 1034.2 (2nd c.AD))]; τίς τινι χαίρειν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (A to B greeting (in a draft letter),[prev. work] (2nd c.AD).)]
A.II the neuter τι is used,
A.II.a collectively, ἦν τι καὶ ἐν ταῖς Συρακούσαις there was a party.. , [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.48)]; so perhaps τῶν ἄλλων οὔ πέρ τι πεφυγμένον ἐστ᾽ Ἀφροδίτην, οὔτε θεῶν, οὔτ᾽ ἀνθρώπων no class, [Refs (hymnus ad Venerem 34)] (but masculine τις in [Refs (“hymnus ad Mercurium” 143).)]
A.II.b euphemistic for something bad, see above [Refs (3.)]
A.II.c joined with Verbs, somewhat, in any degree, at all, ἦ ῥά τί μοι κεχολώσεαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.421; παρεθάρρυνέ τι αὐτούς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.4.7, etc.: with _adjectives_ or Adverbs, οὕτω δή τι ἰσχυραί, οὕτω δή τι πολύγονον, etc., 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.12, 108, compare 4.52; so also ὀλίγον τι ἧσσον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.365; οὐδέ τι μᾶλλον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.123, etc.; ἧσσόν τι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.75, etc.)]; οὐ πάνυ τι, πολύ τι, σχεδόν τι, see at {πάνυ} [Refs (1.3, πολύς 111.1a, 2a, σχεδόν IV)]; also in conjunction with οὐδέν, μηδέν, οὐδέν τι πάντως [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.3)]; οὐδέν, μηδέν τι μᾶλλον, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 522, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 280; μηδέν τι λίαν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 1234:)] —also καί τι καὶ.. ὑποψίᾳ in part also from suspicion, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.107; καί πού τι καί 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.28.)]
A.II.12 τίς τε frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ὡς ὅτε τίς τε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.33, 4.141, see τε 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]
A.II.13 ἤ τις ἢ οὐδείς few or none, next to none, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.140, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.45, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 47.5, 48.4)]; ἤ τι ἢ οὐδέν little or nothing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 17b; ἢ οὐδεὶς ἤ τις 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 41.62 (assuming variant).)]
A.II.14 τις is pleonastic in such phrases as οὐδέν τι or μηδέν τι, see above [Refs (11c.)]
A.II.14.b repeated in successive clauses, ὅσα λέγει τις ἢ πράσσειτις ἢψέγειν ἔχει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 689; εἴ τις δύο ἢ καὶ πλέους τις ἡμέρας λογίζεται [prev. author] “Tr.” 944 (where however κἄτι πλείους is probably conjecture),compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1218)] (whereas τις is sometimes omitted in the first clause, οὔτε φωνὴν οὔτε του μορφὴν βροτῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 21, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 3): but in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 734, ἔστι γάρ τις οὐ πρόσω.. πόλις τις)], the repetition is pleonastic, as also in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 57f (Lyric poetry, assuming variant).)]
A.II.15 τις is sometimes omitted, οὐδέ κεν ἔνθα τεόν γε μένος καὶ χεῖρας ὄνοιτο (i.e. τις) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.287)]; ὡς δ᾽ ἐν ὀνείρῳ οὐ δύναται (i.e. τις) φεύγοντα διώκειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (22.199, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1226 (Lyric poetry), “Leg.Gort.” 2.2, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 5.2, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 456d)]: τις must often be supplied from what goes before,[Refs ([prev. work] 478c, “Prt.” 319d.)]
A.II.15.b sometimes also τις is omitted before a genitive case which must depend upon it, as ἢ [τις] τᾶς ἀσώτου Σισυφιδᾶν γενεᾶς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 189 (Lyric poetry))]; ἢν γαμῇ ποτ᾽ αὐτὸς ἢ [τις] τῶν ξυγγενῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1128; ἐν τῶν πόλεων “IG” 12.56.14.--Cf. ὅστις, οὔτις, μήτις, ἄλλο τι.)]
A.III Accentuation and position of τις:
A.III.1 accentuation: τις is normally enclitic, but in certain uses is orthotone, i.e. theoretically oxytone (τίς, τινά, τινές, τινῶν, etc.,[Refs 4th c.AD+ (compare 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 1.373 H.) and barytone when followed by another word (τὶς)] or τις, τινὰ, τινὲς, τινῶν, etc.). According to [Refs (Scholia 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus p.240 H. its orthotone accent is τίς (not τὶς), τίνα, τίνες, etc. The orthotone form is used in codices:)]
A.III.1.a at the beginning of a sentence, τίς ἔνδον..; is any one within? [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 654 (τὶς conjecture Hermann))]; τί φημ; ={λέγω τι}; am I saying anything? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 865, “OT” 1471)]; <τίς ἦλθ;> ἦλθέ τις has anybody come? [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“Somebody” has come, Scholia 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus [same place])]; τὶς κάθηται, τὶς περιπατεῖ, so and so is sitting (walking), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 8.97)]; τὶς αἰπόλος καλούμενος Κομάτας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.78; τίς ποτε οἰκοδεσπότης.. ἐκοπία 5th-4th c.BC: Aesopus Fabularum Scriptor in “Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum” iii; or after a pause, πῶς γὰρ ἄν, ἔφην ἐγώ, ὦ βέλτιστε, τὶς ἀποκρίναιτο 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 337e)]; τι οὖν (τὶς ἂν εἴποι) ταῦτα λέγει; [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.14 (variant); ἔντοσθεν δὲ γυνά, τι θεῶν δαίδαλμα 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.32; οὐ γυμνὸν τὸ φίλαμα, τι δ᾽ ὦ ξένε καὶ πλέον ἑξεῖς 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 1.5 (variant for{τὺ}).)]
A.III.1.b when τις is opposed to to another τις or to some other word, τισὶ μὲν συμφέρει, τισὶ δ᾽ οὐ συμφέρει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1284b40, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.92, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 49a, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.2; τινὲς μὲν οὖν.., ἡμεῖς δὲ.. 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.1; τὸ τὶ μὲν ψεῦδος ἔχον, τὶ δὲ ἀληθές 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 8.127; ἀλλὰ τινὰ μὲν.., τινὰ δὲ.. 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 14.6; ποτὲ μὲν πρὸς πάντα, ποτὲ δὲ πρὸς τινά 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.48: without such opposition, τοῦτ᾽ εἰς ἀνίαν τοὔπος ἔρχεται τινί)] for a certain person, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1138)]. Codices are not consistent; in signification[Refs (11.5a, 10c, 13)] they make it enclitic; in signification [Refs (11.5b sometimes enclitic, sometimes orthotone (see. above))]; sometimes enclitic and orthotone in the same sentence, πάντα δὲ τὰ γιγνόμενα ὑπό τέ τινος γίγνεται καὶ ἔκ τινος καὶ τί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1032a14, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 165c.)]
A.III.2 position:
A.III.2.a τις is rarely first word in the sentence, and rarely follows a pause (see. above [Refs (111.1a, b))]; it may stand second word, ἔσκε τις ἐνθάδε μάντις ἀνήρ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.508, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.515, 23.331)]; but in general its position is not far before or after the word to which it belongs in sense, ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε δή τινα μάντιν ἐρείομεν [Refs (1.62; φυλακὴ δέ τις ἔμπεδος ἔστω 8.521.)]
A.III.2.b in Ionic dialect Prose it sometimes stands between its genitive and the Article of that genitive, τῶν τις Περσέων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.85; τῶν τις ἱρέων [prev. author] 2.38; τῶν τινες Φοινίκων [prev. author] 8.90; ἐς τῶν τι ἄλλο στομάτων τοῦ Νείλου [prev. author] 2.179)]; so also in late Prose, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.108d, 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1402.18, 1659.27, 1676.1.)]
A.III.2.c it stands between the Article and substantive in signification[Refs 5th c.BC+ (11.10b.)]
A.III.2.d τίς τι is the correct order, not τί τις, “IG” 12.110.46, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.10, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.1.14 (codices dett.), 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 22.22, etc.
A.III.2.e whereas in _Attic dialect_ the order ἐάν τις is compulsory, in _Doric dialect_ the usual order is αἴ τίς κα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Leg.Gort.” 9.43, +others, “Tab.Heracl.” 1.105, +others (but αἴ κά τις 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 35, 159; αἰ δέ κα μή τις “Leg.Gort.” 5.13))]: later Doric dialect εἴ τί κα [Refs (“GDI” 2101.3, +others)]; καἴ τι ἂν (={καὶ εἴ τι ἂν}) [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“IG” 5(1).1390.50 (Andania, 1st c.BC)], see below [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 11.1b))]:—this Doric dialect order influenced the Koine, as in the rare εἴ τις ἂν [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Tiberius Gracchus” 15.)]