σφʼ (sph)

σφʼ is an Ancient Greek form of σφεῖς, meaning “they, them (3rd pl.)”. It is the accusative plural masculine pronoun.

Found 90 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.284: καί νύ κε δή σφʼ ἀέκητι θεῶν διεδηλήσαντο

Euripides, Alcestis 16: πατέρα γεραιάν θ’ ἥ σφ’ ἔτικτε μητέρα,

Euclid, Elementa 13.prop.17: … αὶ ἀνεστάτωσαν ἀπὸ τῶν Ρ, Σ, Τ σημείων τοῖς τοῦ κύβου ἐπιπέδοις πρὸς ὀρθὰς ἐπὶ τὰ ἐκτὸς μέρη τοῦ κύβου αἱ ΡΥ, ΣΦ, ΤΧ, καὶ κείσθωσαν ἴσαι ταῖς ΡΟ, ΟΣ, ΤΠ, καὶ ἐπεζεύχθωσαν αἱ ΥΒ, ΒΧ, ΧΓ, ΓΦ, ΦΥ. λέγω, ὅτι τὸ ΥΒΧΓΦ πεντάγωνο …

All forms of σφεῖς (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.