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αἵτινες (haitines)

αἵτινες is an Ancient Greek form of ὅστις, meaning “whoever, whatever; who, which”. It is the nominative plural feminine pronoun.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.112.3: προκαλούμεθα δὲ ὑμᾶς φίλοι μὲν εἶναι, πολέμιοι δὲ μηδετέροις, καὶ ἐκ τῆς γῆς ἡμῶν ἀναχωρῆσαι σπονδὰς ποιησαμένους αἵτινες δοκοῦσιν ἐπιτήδειοι εἶναι ἀμφοτέροις.’

Plutarch, De Superstitione 1: … αί τινες εἶναι σῶμα τὴν ἀρετὴν καὶ τὴν κακίαν· αἰσχρὸν ἴσως τὸ ἀγνόημα, θρήνων δὲ καὶ ὀδυρμῶν οὐκ ἄξιον· ἀλλʼ αἵτινές εἰσι τοιαῦται κρίσεις καὶ ὑπολήψεις ὦ τλῆμον ἀρετή, λόγος ἄρʼ ἦσθʼ· ἐγὼ δέ σε ὡς ἔργον ἤσκουν ἀφεὶς τὴν πλουτ …

New Testament, Luke 23.55: Κατακολουθήσασαι δὲ αἱ γυναῖκες, αἳτινες ἦσαν συνεληλυθυῖαι ἐκ τῆς Γαλιλαίας αὐτῷ, ἐθεάσαντο τὸ μνημεῖον καὶ ὡς ἐτέθη τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ,

All forms of ὅστις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.