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|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> Indef. Pron. any one, any [[thing]], [[some]] one, [[some]] [[thing]]; and as adj. any, [[some]], and serving as the Indef. Art. a, an: in the [[latter]] [[case]] it agrees with its Subst., [[φίλος]] τις a [[friend]], [[θεός]] τις a god, i. e. not a man; in the [[former]] it is followed by gen. pl., [[φίλων]] τις one of thy friends, [[θεῶν]] τις one of the gods.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[special]] usages:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[some]] one (of [[many]]), i. e. [[many]] a one, ὧδε δέ τις εἴπεσκεν so men said, Hom.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> any one concerned, [[each]] one, Il.; τοὺς ξυμμάχους αὐτόν τινα κολάζειν that [[every]] man should [[himself]] [[chastise]] his own allies, Thuc.; ἄμεινόν τινος [[better]] [[than]] any others, Dem.:—[[this]] is [[more]] [[fully]] expressed by adding [[other]] pronominal words, τις [[ἕκαστος]] Od., etc.; πᾶς τις Hdt., etc.; [[οὐδείς]] or [[μηδείς]] τις Eur., Xen.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> in [[reference]] to a [[person]], whom one avoids naming, δώσει τις [[δίκην]] [[some]] one I [[know]] [[will]] [[suffer]], Ar.; so euphem. for [[something]] bad, ἤν τι ποιῶμεν, ἤν τι πάθωμεν Thuc.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> [[indefinitely]], [[where]] we say they, French on, μισεῖ τις ἐκεῖνον they [[hate]] him, Dem.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> τις, τι, emphat. of a [[person]] or [[thing]], [[some]] [[great]] one, [[some]] [[great]] [[thing]], ηὔχεις τις [[εἶναι]] you boasted that you were [[somebody]], Eur.; δοκοῦσι τινὲς [[εἶναι]] Dem.; κἠγών τις φαίνομαι [[ἦμες]] I too [[seem]] to be [[somebody]], Theocr.; so in neut., οἴονταί τι [[εἶναι]] Plat.; so, λέγειν τι to be near the [[mark]], opp. to οὐδὲν λέγειν, Plat.<br /><b class="num">6.</b> emphat. a man, opp. to a [[brute]], τις ἢ [[κύων]] Ar.: [[reversely]], with [[sense]] of [[contempt]], [[Θερσίτης]] τις ἦν [[there]] was one [[Thersites]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">7.</b> with [[prop]]. names τις [[commonly]] signifies one of the [[same]] [[sort]], as, ἤ τις [[Ἀπόλλων]] ἢ Πάν [[either]] an [[Apollo]] or a Pan, Aesch.; [[Ἀφροδίτη]] τις Eur.<br /><b class="num">8.</b> with Adjs. τις takes a restrictive [[sense]], ὥς τις [[θαρσαλέος]] ἐσσι a [[bold]] [[kind]] of [[fellow]], i. e. [[very]] [[bold]], Od.; [[δυσμαθής]] τις a [[dull]] [[sort]] of [[person]], Plat.<br /><b class="num">9.</b> with numerals, [[ἑπτά]] τινες [[some]] [[seven]], [[seven]] or so, Thuc.; ἐς διακοσίους τινάς Thuc.; so without [[numeral]], ἡμέρας τινάς [[some]] days, i. e. [[several]], Thuc.; ἐνιαυτόν τινα a [[year]] or so, Thuc.; so, οὐ πολλοί τινες, τινες οὐ πολλοί, ὀλίγοι τινές Thuc.:—so also [[ὅσος]] τις [[χρυσός]] [[what]] a [[store]] of [[gold]], Od.<br />with Pronominal words, οἷός τις [[what]] [[sort]] of a man, Il.; ποῖός and ὁποῖός τις Soph., Xen., etc.; τις [[τοιόσδε]] Hdt.; τοιοῦτός τις Xen.:— [[ὅταν]] δ' ὁ [[κύριος]] παρῇ τις [[when]] the [[lord]], [[whoever]] he be, is [[here]], Soph.:—in opposed clauses, ὁ μέν τις . . , ὁ δὲ . . Eur., Plat., etc.<br />11. the neut. τι is used as adv. [[somewhat]], in any [[degree]], at all, Il., etc.<br />12. ἤ τις ἢ [[οὐδείς]] few or [[none]], [[next]] to [[none]], Hdt.; ἤ τι ἢ [[οὐδέν]] [[little]] or [[nothing]], Plat.

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