τοῦτο
ἔτυχες εἰς τὴν μάχην ὑπὸ τοῦ στρατηγοῦ πεμφθεὶς → you happened to be sent into the battle by the general
French (Bailly abrégé)
neutre de οὗτος.
English (Autenrieth)
demonstrative pronoun, this, (he), sometimes however to be translated that, as when it anticipates a following relative, Od. 6.201 f. Sometimes deictic and local, ‘here’ like ὅδε, Il. 10.82, 3, Il. 11.612. The article, required with οὗτος in prose, occurs in Homer once, τοῦτον τὸν ἄναλτον, Od. 18.114.
English (Strong)
neuter singular nominative or accusative case of οὗτος; that thing: here (-unto), it, partly, self(-same), so, that (intent), the same, there(-fore, -unto), this, thus, where(-fore).
Russian (Dvoretsky)
τοῦτο:
I n к οὗτος.
II adv.
1 потому, поэтому: αὐτὰ τ. Plat. потому-то; τ. ἀφικόμην Soph. затем-то я и пришел;
2 отчасти, во-первых, с одной стороны: τ. μὲν …, τ. δέ (μετὰ δέ, ἔπειτα δέ) Her., Soph. с одной стороны …, с другой же.