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The Definite Article.—The definite article ὁ, ἡ, τό (stems ὁ-, ἁ_-, το-) is thus declined:
| SINGULAR | DUAL | PLURAL | |||||||||
| Nom. | ὁ | ἡ | τό | N. A. | τώ | τώ | τώ | Nom. | οἱ | αἱ | τά |
| Gen. | τοῦ | τῆς | τοῦ | G. D. | τοῖν | τοῖν | τοῖν | Gen. | τῶν | τῶν | τῶν |
| Dat. | τῷ | τῇ | τῷ | Dat. | τοῖς | ταῖς | τοῖς | ||||
| Acc. | τόν | τήν | τό | Acc. | τούς | τά_ς | τά |
a. The definite article is a weakened demonstrative pronoun, and is still used as a demonstrative in Homer ( cross1100).
b. τά_ (especially) and ταῖν, the feminine forms in the dual, are very rare in the authors, and are unknown on Attic prose inscriptions of the classical period.
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Herbert Weir Smyth [n.d.], A Greek Grammar for Colleges; Machine readable text [info] [word count] [Smyth].
