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The oblique cases of εἰσὶν οἵ there are those who = some (ἔνιοι) are regularly formed by ἔστιν ὧν, ἔστιν οἷς, ἔστιν οὕς (or οὕστινας), which are used also of the past and future.
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πλὴν Ἰώνων . . . καὶ ἔστιν ὧν ἄλλων ἐθνῶν
except the Ionians and some other nations
T. 3.92, αὐχμοὶ ἔστι παρ' οἷς μεγάλοι great droughts among some 1. 23, ἔστι μὲν οὓς αὐτῶν κατέβαλον
some of them they struck down
X. H. 2.4.6, ἔστιν ἃ καὶ πολίσματα εἷλεν
he captured also some towns
T. 1.65.
a. Xenophon also uses ἦν οἵ; thus, τῶν δὲ πολεμίων ἦν οὓς ὑποσπόνδους ἀπέδοσαν
there were some of the enemy whom they restored under a truce
X. H. 7.5.17.
Herbert Weir Smyth [
n.d.],
A Greek Grammar for Colleges; Machine readable text [
info] [
word count] [
Smyth].
