τάν (tan)

τάν is an Ancient Greek form of ὁ, meaning “the; (Hom.) he, she, it; this, that”. It is the accusative singular feminine article.

Found 860 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.77.6: αἰ δέ κα τῶν ἐκτὸς Πελοποννάσω τις ἐπὶ τὰν Πελοπόννασον γᾶν ἴῃ ἐπὶ κακῷ, ἀλεξέμεναι ἁμόθι βωλευσαμένως, ὅπᾳ κα δικαιότατα δοκῇ τοῖς Πελοποννασίοις.

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 3.35: τάν με καὶ ἁ Μέρμνωνος ἐριθακὶς ἁ μελανόχρως

Euripides, Cyclops 198: οὐ δῆτ’· ἐπεί τἂν μεγάλα γ’ ἡ Τροία στένοι,

All forms of ὁ (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.