ὁ, ἡ, τό , epic forms, gen.
τοῖο, du. τοῖιν, pl. τοί, ταί, gen.
τα?ων, dat. τοῖσι,
τῆς(ι): (1) as demonstrative
pronoun, that, those, often merely an emphatic
he, she, it, pl. they, them;
οὐδὲ παλαιῶν (γυναικῶν), | τα?ων αἳ
πάρος ἦσαν, ‘those ancient,’ Od. 2.119; the emphatic after-position
being common when the word is adjectival, cf. Il. 5.320, 332; the pron. is often foll. by a name in
apposition, αὐτὰρ ὃ μήνιε..
Ἀχιλλεύς, ‘he, namely
Achilles,’ Il. 1.488
; ἣ δ᾽ ἕσπετο Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη, Od. 1.125; freq. ὃ
μὲν.. ὃ δέ, τὸ μὲν.. τὸ δέ, etc., the one..
the other, this.. that, etc. The word should be accented
when used as a demonstrative.—(2) as definite article,
the, a use denied by some to Homer, but the sense
imperatively demands the later weakened force in many passages, and
does not admit the stronger, Αἴα_ς δ᾽ ὁ
μέγας,
Il. 16.358;
αἰὲν ἀποκτείνων τὸν ὀπίστατον,
Il. 8.342; τά τ̓
ἐόντα τά τ̓ ἐσσόμενα, Il.
1.70, and oftenest w. adjectives.—(3) as relative
pronoun, who, which, esp., but not exclusively, the
forms beginning with τ. The masc. sing. as
rel. occurs, Il. 16.835, Il. 21.59, 230,
Od. 1.254, Od. 2.262, Od. 4.777; πατρὸς, ὅ σ᾽ ἔτρεφε τυτθὸν ἐόντα,
Od. 11.67. τέ is often appended to the word when used relatively,
ταί τε, ὅ τε, Od. 12.40.—For ὅ γε, see ὅγε.