σφᾶς (sphas)

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

Found 1,470 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.959: σφᾶς αὐτοὺς νημερτὲς ἐπέφραδον ἀντιάσαντες·

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 21.16: πάντʼ ἐδόκει τήνοις· ἁ γὰρ πενία σφας ἔτειρε

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 3.2: … νεανίαι τοῦ προεστῶτος αὐτῶν εὐνούχου ἐδέοντο μὴ τοῖς ἐκ τῆς βασιλικῆς τραπέζης χορηγουμένοις αὐτοῖς διαιτᾶν σφάς, ἀλλ’ ὀσπρίοις καὶ φοίνιξι καὶ τοιούτοις ἄλλοις. ὁ δὲ δεδιέναι ἔλεγε μὴ τοιούτοις τρεφόμενοι λεπτυνθῶσι τὰ σώ …

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.