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Headword: Σφίν
Adler number: sigma,1749
Translated headword: to themselves, for themselves
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

To/for them.[1]
Also [used] in place of the pronoun οἷ in Sophocles. "For it was right to grant them fulfillment of a favor." [Meaning] him.[2]

Greek Original:

Σφίν: αὐτοῖς. καὶ ἀντὶ τῆς οἷ ἀντωνυμίας παρὰ Σοφοκλεῖ: ἔδει γὰρ τελεσφόρον χάριν δοῦναι σφίσιν. οἱ αὐτῷ.

Notes:

[1] Dative plural of the pronoun used in Attic as an indirect reflexive; similarly glossed in other lexica, and in a scholion on Homer, Iliad 1.110 (web address 1). Cf. sigma 1742, sigma 1750.
[2] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1490 (web address 2), with scholion, indicating that the pronoun can also be used as singular.

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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 May 2009@14:15:24.
Vetted by:

David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 23 May 2009@11:32:21.
David Whitehead on 23 August 2011@07:54:29.

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