ταῦτʼ (taut)

ταῦτʼ is an Ancient Greek form of οὗτος, meaning “this; this one, he, she, it”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 3,052 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.90.3: οἱ δ’ Ἀθηναῖοι Θεμιστοκλέους γνώμῃ τοὺς μὲν Λακεδαιμονίους ταῦτ’ εἰπόντας ἀποκρινάμενοι ὅτι πέμψουσιν ὡς αὐτοὺς πρέσβεις περὶ ὧν λέγουσιν εὐθὺς ἀπήλλαξαν· ἑαυτὸν δ’ ἐκέλευεν …

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.4.80: … παῖδες ἐνὶ τριόδῳ. κείνων ἔρχεο, φησί, μετʼ ἴχνια. χὠ μὲν ἐπέστη πλησίον· οἱ δʼ ἔλεγον· τὴν κατὰ σαυτὸν ἔλα. ταῦτʼ ἀΐων ὁ ξεῖνος ἐφείσατο μείζονος οἴκου δράξασθαι, παίδων κληδόνα συνθέμενος. τὴν δʼ ὀλίγην ὡς κεῖνος ἐς οἰκίον …

Euripides, Alcestis 688: λείψω· πατρὸς γὰρ ταὔτ’ ἐδεξάμην πάρα.

All forms of οὗτος (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.