Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges

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[*] 1105. The demonstrative ὁ, ἡ, τό is used as a relative pronoun in Homer only when the antecedent is definite (cp. that): τεύχεα δ᾽ ἐξενάριξε, τά οἱ πόρε χάλκεος Ἄρης he stripped off the arms that brazen Ares had given him H 146. The tragic poets use only the forms in τ-, and chiefly to avoid hiatus or to produce position: ““κτείνουσα τοὺς οὐ χρὴ κτανεῖν” slaying those whom it is not right to slay” E. And. 810. (ὅ ῀ ὅς E. Hipp. 525.) On the use in Herodotus, see 338 D. 3.