χὠ (cho)

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

Found 185 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.4.80: … ἱ δʼ ἄρʼ ὑπὸ πληγῇσι θοὰς βέμβικας ἔχοντες ἔστρεφον εὐρείῃ 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, …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 1.100: τὰν δʼ ἄρα χὡ Δάφνις ποταμείβετο· Κύπρι βαρεῖα,

Euripides, Hippolytus 1244: ἐλειπόμεσθα. χὣ μὲν ἐκ δεσμῶν λυθεὶς

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.