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σφώ (spho)

σφώ is an Ancient Greek form of σφεῖς, meaning “they, them (3rd pl.)”. It is the accusative dual feminine pronoun.

It can also be a form of σφός, “their own (his, her own)”.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 22.169: σφὼ γὰρ ἀκηλήτω καὶ ἀπηνέες. ἀλλʼ ἔτι καὶ νῦν

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1407: μή τοί με πρὸς θεῶν σφώ γʼ, ἐὰν αἱ τοῦδʼ ἀραὶ

Aristophanes, Knights 1157: βδελύττομαί σφω καὶ προπαλαιπαλαίπαλαι.

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.