Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges

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[*] 2171. There exist many traces in Greek of the use of the older coördination in place of which some form of subordination was adopted, either entirely or in part, in the later language.

a. Thus several relative pronouns and adverbs were originally demonstrative, and as such pointed either to the earlier or the later clause. So ὁ, ἡ, τό (1105, cp. 1114): τεύχεα δ᾽ ἐξενάριζε, τά οἱ πόρε χάλκεος Ἄρης (H 146) meant originally he stripped him of his arms; these brazen Ares had given him. τέως so long is properly demonstrative, but has acquired a relative function in ““καὶ τέως ἐστὶ καιρός, ἀντιλάβεσθε τῶν πρα_γμάτων” and while there is time, take our policy in hand” D. 1.20.