οἵους (hoious)

οἵους is an Ancient Greek form of οἷος, meaning “such as, of what sort; alone”.

It can also be a form of οἶος, “alone, only, lone”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective.

Found 200 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.70.1: … αὶ μεγάλων τῶν διαφερόντων καθεστώτων, περὶ ὧν οὐκ αἰσθάνεσθαι ἡμῖν γε δοκεῖτε, οὐδ’ ἐκλογίσασθαι πώποτε πρὸς οἵους ὑμῖν Ἀθηναίους ὄντας καὶ ὅσον ὑμῶν καὶ ὡς πᾶν διαφέροντας ὁ ἀγὼν ἔσται.

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 9.13.1: … ῶας καὶ πάντας Ἀχαιοὺς τεύχεα κάλʼ ἀποθέσθαι ἐπὶ χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ, αὐτὸν δʼ ἐν μέσσῳ καὶ ἀρηίφιλον Μενέλαον οἴους ἀμφʼ Ἑλένῃ καὶ κτήμασι πᾶσι μάχεσθαι. τῷ δέ κε νικήσαντι γυνὴ καὶ κτήμαθʼ ἕποιτο. δεξαμένου δὲ τοῦ Μενελάου, …

All forms of οἷος (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.