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τῶν (ton)

τῶν is an Ancient Greek form of ὁ, meaning “the; (Hom.) he, she, it; this, that”. It is the genitive plural masculine article.

Found 122,032 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.165: τῶν ἄμφω γνωτὸς προγενέστερος. ἀλλʼ ὁ μὲν ἤδη

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.prol.16: Τῶν δὲ φιλοσόφων οἱ μὲν γεγόνασι δογματικοί, οἱ δʼ ἐφεκτικοί· δογματικοὶ μὲν ὅσοι περὶ τῶν πραγμάτων ἀποφαίνονται …

Plutarch, Caius Marius 10.2: καὶ περιῆλθέ τις νέμεσις ἐν τῷ τέλει τῶν πράξεων Μάριον ἀφῃρέθη γάρ ὑπὸ Σύλλα τὴν τοῦ κατορθώματος δόξαν, ὡς ὑπʼ ἐκείνου Μέτελλος· ὃν τρόπον δέ, ἀφηγή …

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.