Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges

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[*] 2488. Relative clauses correspond to attributive adjectives (or participles), since like adjectives they serve to define substantives. Like adjectives, too, they often have the value of substantives and stand in any case.

δ̀ν γὰρ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ( = ὁ θεοφιλής), ἀποθνῄσκει νέος for whom the gods love, dies young Men. Sent. 425, ἦ θίγω δῆθ᾽ οἵ μ᾽ ἔφυ_σαν; ( = τῶν με φυ_σάντων) am I to embrace him who begat me? E. Ion 560, σὺν τοῖς θησαυροῖς οἷς ὁ πατὴρ κατέλιπεν ( = τοῖς ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς καταλειφθεῖσι) with the treasures which my father left X. C. 3.1.33, ἐν αὐτοῖς οἷς ἐτι_μᾶσθε ( = ἐν αὐταῖς ταῖς τι_μαῖς) in the very honours which you received D. 19.238, ““ὧν ἔλαβεν ἅπα_σι μετέδωκεν” it shared with all what it received” I. 4.29.