σφῶν (sphon)

σφῶν is an Ancient Greek form of σύ, meaning “you (sg.), thou”.

It can also be a form of σφεῖς, “they, them (3rd pl.)”. It is the genitive plural masculine pronoun.

Found 1,128 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.23.2: οὔτε γὰρ πόλεις τοσαίδε ληφθεῖσαι ἠρημώθησαν, αἱ μὲν ὑπὸ βαρβάρων, αἱ δ’ ὑπὸ σφῶν αὐτῶν ἀντιπολεμούντων (εἰσὶ δ’ αἳ καὶ οἰκήτορας μετέβαλον ἁλισκόμεναι), οὔτε φυγαὶ τοσαίδε ἀνθρώπων καὶ φόνος, ὁ μὲν κατ’ αὐτὸν τὸν πόλεμον, ὁ δὲ διὰ τὸ στασιάζειν.

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 22.166: ἄμμι γάμον· σφῷν δʼ ἄλλον ἐπιφραζώμεθα πάντες.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 36.30.3: … μοιτο. ταῦτʼ οὖν αὐτοῦ χειρονομοῦντος ὁ ὅμιλος μέγα καὶ ἀπειλητικὸν ἀνέκραγεν, ὥστε κόρακά τινα ὑπερπετόμενόν σφων ἐκπλαγῆναι καὶ πεσεῖν

All forms of σύ (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.