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τινε (tine)

τινε is an Ancient Greek form of τις, meaning “someone, anyone, a certain; some”. It is the accusative dual pronoun.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 12.12: θείω δή τινε τώδε μετὰ προτέροισι γενέσθην

Plato, Sophist 222: … οἷον λειμῶνας ἀφθόνους, τἀν τούτοις θρέμματα χειρωσόμενος. πῶς λέγεις; τῆς πεζῆς θήρας γίγνεσθον δύο μεγίστω τινὲ μέρει. ποῖον ἑκάτερον; τὸ μὲν τῶν ἡμέρων, τὸ δὲ τῶν ἀγρίων. εἶτʼ ἔστι τις θήρα τῶν ἡμέρων; εἴπερ γέ ἐστιν ἄνθ …

Plato, Phaedrus 237: … ῶντες ἐπιθυμοῦσι τῶν καλῶν, ἴσμεν. τῷ δὴ τὸν ἐρῶντά τε καὶ μὴ κρινοῦμεν; δεῖ αὖ νοῆσαι ὅτι ἡμῶν ἐν ἑκάστῳ δύο τινέ ἐστον ἰδέα ἄρχοντε καὶ ἄγοντε, οἷν ἑπόμεθα ᾗ ἂν ἄγητον, ἡ μὲν ἔμφυτος οὖσα ἐπιθυμία ἡδονῶν, ἄλλη δὲ ἐπίκτητος …

All forms of τις (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.