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οἵων (hoion)

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

It can also be a form of ὄις, “sheep”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 169 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1090: τὸν δʼ ὅγε κεκλιμένον μαλακοῖς ἐνὶ κώεσιν οἰῶν.

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.36.4: … ἰδόσιν οὐ βουλόμενος ἐάσω· ἀπὸ δὲ οἵας τε ἐπιτηδεύσεως ἤλθομεν ἐπ’ αὐτὰ καὶ μεθ’ οἵας πολιτείας καὶ τρόπων ἐξ οἵων μεγάλα ἐγένετο, ταῦτα δηλώσας πρῶτον εἶμι καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν τῶνδε ἔπαινον, νομίζων ἐπί τε τῷ παρόντι οὐκ ἂν ἀπρεπῆ …

Lysias, On the Confiscation of the Property Of The Brother Of Nicias 23: … τῶν προγόνων εὐδαιμονίαν καταλῦσαι, ἀλλὰ πολὺ μᾶλλον παράδειγμα ποιῆσαι τοῖς βουλομένοις τὴν πόλιν εὖ ποιεῖν, οἴων ὑμῶν ἐν τοῖς κινδύνοις τεύξονται.

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.