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|Definition=τι, Indef. Pron.<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[any one]], [[any thing]], enclitic through all cases (for exceptions v. infr.):—but [[τίς]]; τί; Interrog. Pron. [[who]]? [[what]]?, oxyt. in the monosyll. cases, parox. in the others:—Dialectal forms: Cypr. [[σις]] ([[si se]]) ''Inscr.Cypr.''135.10 H.; Arc. [[σις]] (with † for ς) ''IG''5(2).262.25 (Mantinea, v B.C.); Thess. κις ib.9(2).515.12 (Larissa), 1226.4, 1229.27 (Phalanna), pl. κινες ib.517.41 (Larissa), neut. κι in [[διεκί]], [[ποκκί]] ([[quod vide|qq.v.]]); neut. pl. Dor. [[σά]], Boeot. [[τά]], Aeol. dat. [[τίω]], [[τίοισι]] (v. infr. B). (I.-E. qu̯i-, cf. Lat. [[quis]], [[quid]], etc.; for [[σά]], τά, v. [[ἄσσα]], σά μάν; with [[τέο]] (v. infr. B) cf. OSlav. gen. c†eso.)<br><span class="bld">A</span> Indef. Pron. τις, τι, gen. Ion. [[τεο]] Od.16.305, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.58; more freq. τευ Il.2.388, al., [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]4.30, al., Meliss.7, etc.; Trag. and Att. [[του]] A.''Pr.''21, [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[Acharnians|Ach.]]''329, Th.1.70, etc. (sts. fem., [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''290, ''OT''1107 (lyr.), E.''Hec.''370, etc.); του is rare after 300 B.C., never in [[LXX]] or [[NT]], but found in ''IG''12(5).798.17 (Tenos, iii B.C.), ''PCair.Zen.''250.6, 647.23 (iii B.C.), Plb.3.23.3, revived by the Atticists, D.H.8.29, Plu.''Fab.''20, etc.; τινος Pi.''P.''2.90, ''IG''12.16.17, 65.41, A.''Eu.'' 5, ''Ch.''102, S.''Ant.''698, al., [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.109, al. (''Rh.Mus.''72.483), etc.; dat. Ion. [[τεῳ]] Il.16.227, Od.11.502, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.48, 5.86; Trag. and Att. [[τῳ]] (also in Hom., Il.1.299, 12.328, Od.13.308, 20.297, al., always in masc.) A.''Th.''1045, ''IG''12.39.54, D.S.18.45; as fem., A.''Th.''472, S. ''OT''80, etc.; τινι (Hom. in the form οὔ τινι Il.17.68, Od.14.96) Pi. ''O.''9.26, al., B.17.12, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.114 (elsewhere fem., 2.62, 3.69, 83, 4.113), A.''Th.''1041, [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''443, 495, etc.; acc. τινα Il.1.62, 5.761, etc., neut. τι 2.122, etc.: dual τινε Od.4.26, Pl.''Sph.''237d, ''Prm.''143c, 149e: pl. τινες (Hom. only in οὔ τινες Od.6.279, 17.587 and [[οἵτινες]] (v. [[ὅστις]])); Dor. [[τινεν]] ''SIG''527.127 (Drerus, iii B.C.); nom. and acc. neut. [[τινα]] (ὅτινα Il.22.450), never in Trag., Ar., Th., or [[Herodotus|Hdt.]], [[falsa lectio|f.l.]] in Isoc.4.74, first in Pl.''Chrm.''163d, ''Ep.''325a, D.47.63, Hyp.''Ath.''19, Alex.110, Sotad.Com.1.22, [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Nicomachean Ethics|EN]]''1094a5, ''IG''42(1).121.35 (Epid., iv B.C.), etc.; [[ἄσσα]] ([[quod vide|q.v.]]) Od.19.218, never in Trag. or [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]; Att. [[ἄττα]] first in Th.1.113, 2.100, Ar.''Ra.''173, al., [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 400a, etc., never in LXX, Plb., D.S., Str., revived by the Atticists, [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus|D.H.]]''[[De Compositione Verborum|Comp.]]''3, etc.; gen. Ion. [[τεων]] [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.175, 5.57, [[τεῶν]] cj. for <b class="b3">γε ῶν</b> in 4.76; τινων not in [[Herodotus|Hdt.]], first in [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[The Knights|Eq.]]''977 (lyr.); dat. τισι<b class="b3">, τισιν</b>, first in [[Herodotus|Hdt.]] 9.113, X.''Ath.''1.18; N.-W. Dor. [[τινοις]] ''GDI''1409.5 (Delph., iii B.C.); Ion. [[τεοισι]] [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]8.113, 9.27 (for τεοις and τεον v. [[τεός]]); acc. τινας Il.15.735, Od.11.371 (also in [[οὕστινας]], [[ὅτινας]], v. [[ὅστις]]), etc.; neut. τινα (v. supr.):—[[anyone]], [[anything]], [[someone]], [[something]], [[any one]], [[any thing]], [[some one]], [[some thing]]; and as adjective [[any]], [[some]], and serving as the Indef. Art. a, [[an]]; θεός νύ τίς ἐστι κοτήεις Il.5.191; καί τις θεὸς ἡγεμόνευεν Od.9.142; <b class="b3">οὐδέ τις αὐτὸν ἠείδη δμώων</b> ib.205; <b class="b3">ἤ τι ὀϊσάμενος, ἢ..</b>ib.339; <b class="b3">μή τίς μοι ὑποδείσας ἀναδύη</b> ib.377, cf. 405-410; <b class="b3">εἴ τινά που μετ' ὄεσσι λάβοι</b> ib. 418, cf. 421, al.; <b class="b3">τις θεός</b> construed as if <b class="b3">τις θεῶν</b>, 19.40, cf. 11.502, ''IG''12.94.19, E.''Hel.''1039.<br><span class="bld">II</span> special usages:<br><span class="bld">1</span> [[some one]] (of many), i.e. [[many a one]], ὧδε δέ τις εἴπεσκεν Il.7.201, etc.: sometimes with meiosis, implying [[all]] or [[men]], 13.638, Od.3.224; so in Prose, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]5.49 fin., Th.2.37, etc.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[any one concerned]], [[every one]], εὖ μέν τις δόρυ θηξάσθω Il.2.382; <b class="b3">ἀλλά τις αὐτὸς ἴτω</b> let [[every man]] come himself, 17.254; ἵνα τις στυγέῃσι καὶ ἄλλος 8.515, cf. 16.209, 17.227, al.; so in Trag. and Att., even with the imper., <b class="b3">τοῦτό τις.. ἴστω</b> S ''Aj.''417 (lyr.), cf. E.''Ba.''346, Ar.''Av.''1187; ἀγορεύω τινὶ ἐμὲ μὴ βασανίζειν Id.''Ra.''628; <b class="b3">τοὺς ξυμμάχους αὐτόν τινα κολάζειν</b> that [[every man]] should himself chastise his own allies, Th.1.40, cf. 6.77; ὅ τί τις ἐδύνατο Id.7.75; <b class="b3">ἄμεινόν τινος</b> better than [[any others]], D.21.66, cf. 19.35:—this is more fully expressed by adding other pronominal words, τις ἕκαστος Od.9.65, Th.6.31, etc.; πᾶς τις A.''Ag.'' 1205, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]6.80, Th.8.94, etc.; ἅπας τις [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.113, etc.; οὐδέν τι μᾶλλον Id.4.118. In these senses, τις is freq. combined with pl. words, <b class="b3">οἱ κακοὶ.. οὐκ ἴσασι, πρίν τις ἐκβάλῃ</b>, for <b class="b3">πρὶν ἐκβάλωσι</b>, [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]'' 965; <b class="b3">οἷς ἂν ἐπίω, ἧσσόν τις πρόσεισι</b>, for <b class="b3">ἧσσον προσίασι</b>, Th.4.85; ἐτόλμα τις... ὁρῶντες Id.2.53, cf. 7.75; esp. after [[εἴ]] or <b class="b3">ἤν τις</b>, [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Memorabilia|Mem.]]''1.2.62, al.<br><span class="bld">3</span> in reference to a definite person, whom one wishes to avoid naming, <b class="b3">οὐκ ἔφασαν ἰέναι, ἐὰν μή τις χρήματα διδῷ</b> (i.e. Cyrus) Id.''An.''1.4.12, cf. Ar.''Ra.''552, Theoc.5.122; so also euphemism for something bad, ἤν τι ποιῶμεν Th.2.74; ἂν οὗτός τι πάθῃ D.4.11: hence for the 1st or 2nd pers. Pron., ἅ τιν' οὐ πείσεσθαι ὀΐω Il.1.289, cf. S.''Ant.''751; <b class="b3">ποῖ τις τρέψεται</b>; for <b class="b3">ποῖ τρέψομαι</b>; Ar.''Th.''603, cf. [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''245 (lyr.), 1138, Th.4.59, X.''An.''3.4.40, 5.7.31, etc.<br><span class="bld">4</span> indefinitely, where we say [[they]], French [[on]], sometimes with an ironical force, φοβεῖταί τις A.''Ch.''59 (lyr.); μισεῖ τις ἐκεῖνον D.4.8; as voc., <b class="b3">τὸν Πλοῦτον ἔξω τις κάλει</b> call P. out, [[somebody]], Ar.''Pl.''1196.<br><span class="bld">5</span> τις<b class="b3">, τι</b> may be opposed, expressly or by implication, to [[οὐδείς]], [[οὐδέν]], and mean [[somebody]], [[something]], by meiosis for [[some great one]], [[some great thing]], <b class="b3">ηὔχεις τις εἶναι</b> you boasted that you were [[somebody]], E.''El.''939; εἰσὶν ὅμως τινὲς οἱ εὐδοκιμοῦντες Arist.''Pol.''1293b13; τὸ δοκεῖν τιν' εἶναι Men.156; τὸ δοκεῖν τινὲς εἶναι D.21.213; ὡς σὲ μὲν ἐν τῇ πόλει δεῖ τινὰ φαίνεσθαι, τὴν πόλιν δ' ἐν τοῖς Ἕλλησι μηδενὸς ἀξίαν εἶναι Id.10.71; <b class="b3">κἠγών τις φαίνομαι ἦμεν</b> after all I too am [[somebody]], Theoc.11.79, cf. ''Act.Ap.''5.36; also in neut., οἴονταί τι εἶναι ὄντες οὐδενὸς ἄξιοι Pl.''Ap.''41e, cf.''Phd.''63c, ''Phdr.''243a, ''Euthd.''303c, etc.:—so <b class="b3">τι λέγειν</b> to be near the mark, opp. <b class="b3">οὐδὲν λέγειν</b>, Id.''Prt.''339c, ''R.''329e, ''Phdr.''260a, etc.; ἵνα καὶ εἰδῶμεν εἴ τι ὅδε λέγει Id.''Cra.''407e; οἴεσθέ τι ποιεῖν, οὐδὲν ποιοῦντες Id.''Smp.''173c.<br><span class="bld">b</span> τις is sometimes opp. [[to another word]], ἀελλοπόδων μέν τιν' εὐφραίνοισιν ἵππων τιμαί... τέρπεται δὲ καί τις.. Pi.''Fr.''221; τισὶ τῶν πολιτῶν ἀποροῦσι συνεξέδωκε θυγατέρας... τοὺς δ' ἐλύσατο ἐκ τῶν πολεμίων Lys.19.59; μέρος μέν τι σιδήρου, μέρος δέ τι ὀστράκινον [[LXX]] ''Da.''2.33 (more freq. with the Article, v. infr. 10 c); <b class="b3">ἔστιν οὖν οὐ πᾶν τὸ ταχύ, ἀλλά τι</b> (sic codd. BT) αὐτοῦ ἀγαστόν [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Cratylus|Cra.]]''412c; ἀναγκαῖον ἤτοι πᾶσι τοῖς πολίταις ἀποδίδοσθαι πάσας ταύτας τὰς κρίσεις ἢ τισὶ πάσας.. ἢ τινὰς μὲν αὐτῶν πᾶσι τινὰς δὲ τισίν Arist.''Pol.''1298a9, cf. 1277a23; <b class="b3">τὸ μεῖζον τοῦθ' ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἑτέρου λέγεται· τινὸς γὰρ λέγεται μεῖζον</b> greater than [[something]], Id.''Cat.''6a38; τὸ πρώτως ὂν καὶ οὐ τὶ ὂν ἀλλ' ὂν ἁπλῶς Id.''Metaph.''1028a30; <b class="b3">πότερον τῷ τυχόντι ἢ τισίν</b>; Id.''Pol.''1269a26.<br><span class="bld">6</span> with pr. names τις commonly signifies [[one named]] so-and-so, ἦν δέ τις ἐν Τρώεσσι Δάρης Il.5.9, cf. X.''An.''3.1.4, etc.; with a sense of contempt, <b class="b3">Θερσίτης τις ἦν</b> there was [[one]] Thersites, S.''Ph.''442.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[one of the same sort]], converting the pr. name into an appellative, <b class="b3">ἤ τις Ἀπόλλων ἢ Πάν</b> [[an]] Apollo or a Pan, A.''Ag.''55 (anap.); [πόλιες] ταὶ μέλονται πρός τινος ἢ Διὸς ἢ γλαυκᾶς Ἀθάνας Lyr.in ''PVat.''11v xi7; Σκύλλαν τινά A.''Ag.''1233, cf.Ar.''V.''181, ''Av.''512, ''Ra.''912: so also ὥς τις ἥλιος A.''Ag.''288; [[ἰσθμόν]] τιν' Ar. ''Th.''647.<br><span class="bld">7</span> with Adjs. τις combines to express the idea of a Subst. used as predicate, <b class="b3">ὥς τις θαρσαλέος καὶ ἀναιδής ἐσσι προΐκτης</b> a bold and impudent beggar, Od.17.449, cf. 18.382, 20.140, Il.3.220; <b class="b3">ἐγώ τις, ὡς ἔοικε, δυσμαθής</b> a dull[[ard]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 358a, cf. ''Prt.''340e; <b class="b3">φόβου πλέα τις εἶ</b> a [[coward]], A.''Pr.''696, cf. ''Th.''979(lyr.), ''Ag.''1140 (lyr.); <b class="b3">ὡς ταχεῖά τις.. χάρις διαρρεῖ</b> in what [[swift]] [[fashion]] (= [[ταχέως πως]]), [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''1266, cf. ''OT''618, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]4.198; <b class="b3">δεινόν τι ποιεύμενος</b> thinking it a terrible [[thing]], Id.3.155, 5.33.<br><span class="bld">8</span> with numerals and Adjs. expressing number, size, or the like, <b class="b3">εἷς δέ τις ἀρχὸς ἀνὴρ.. ἔστω</b> [[some]] one man, Il.1.144; ἕνα τιν' ἂν καθεῖσεν Ar.''Ra.''911; δώσει δέ τι ἕν γε φέρεσθαι Od.15.83; τινὰ μίαν νύκτα Th.6.61; προσκαλεσάμενός τινας δύο τῶν ἑκατονταρχῶν ''Act.Ap.''23.23; sometimes the τις softens the definiteness of the numeral, <b class="b3">ἑπτά τινες</b> [[some]] [[seven]], seven [[or so]], Th.7.34; ἐς διακοσίους τινάς Id.3.111, cf. 7.87, 8.21; so without an actual numeral, <b class="b3">ἡμέρας τινάς</b> [[some]] days, i.e. [[several]], Id.3.52; <b class="b3">στρατῷ τινι</b> [[of a certain amount]], [[considerable]], Id.8.3; <b class="b3">ἐνιαυτόν τινα</b> a year [[or so]], Id.3.68; so <b class="b3">οὐ πολλοί τινες, τινὲς οὐ πολλοί</b>, A.''Pers.''510, Th. 6.94, etc.; <b class="b3">ὀλίγοι τινές</b> or τινὲς ὀλίγοι Id.2.17, 3.7; <b class="b3">οὔ τινα πολλὸν χρόνον</b> no [[very]] long time, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]5.48; τις στρατιὰ οὐ πολλή Th.6.61; so also <b class="b3">ὅσσος τις χρυσός</b> what a store of gold, Od.10.45, cf. [[Herodotus|Hdt.]] 1.193, 2.18, etc.; κόσοι τινές Id.7.234; πηλίκαι τινὲς τιμωρίαι Isoc. 20.3; πολλὸς γάρ τις ἔκειτο Il.7.156; ἐκ πολλοῦ τευ χρόνου [[Herodotus|Hdt.]] 2.58.<br><span class="bld">9</span> with Pronominal words, <b class="b3">ἀλλά τί μοι τόδε θυμὸς.. μερμηρίζει</b> [[something]], namely this, Od.20.38, cf. 380; <b class="b3">οἷός τις</b> what sort of a man, Il.5.638 (dub. l.), cf. Od.9.348, 20.377, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Protagoras|Prt.]]'' 313a, etc.; ποῖός τις S.''Ant.''42, ''OC''1163, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.34, X.''An.''7.6.24, etc.; ὁποῖός τις Id.''Cyr.''2.2.2, al.; εὐτυχίη τις τοιήδε [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.139, cf. [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Memorabilia|Mem.]]''1.1.1, etc.; τοιοῦτός τις Id.''An.''5.8.7.<br><span class="bld">10</span> with the Article,<br><span class="bld">a</span> when a noun with the Art. is in appos. with τις, as <b class="b3">ὅταν δ' ὁ κύριος παρῇ τις</b> when the person in authority, [[whoever he be]], is here, S.''OC''289; <b class="b3">τοὺς αὐτοέντας.. τιμωρεῖν τινας</b> ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] τινα) Id.''OT''107.<br><span class="bld">b</span> in Philosophic writers, τις is added to the Art. to show that the Art. is used to denote a particular individual who is not specified in the general formula, although he would be in the particular case, <b class="b3">ὁ τὶς ἄνθρωπος</b> the [[individual]] man ([[whoever]] he may be), [[this]] or [[that]] man, opp. [[ἄνθρωπος]] (man in general), <b class="b3">ὁ τὶς ἵππος, ἡ τὶς γραμματική</b>, [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Categories|Cat.]]''1b4, 8; <b class="b3">τὸ τὶ μέγεθος</b>, opp. <b class="b3">ὅλως τὸ μέγεθος</b>, Id.''Pol.''1283a4, cf. S.E.''P.''2.223; but in ἑνὸς γὰρ τό γε τὶ φήσεις σημεῖον εἶναι Pl.''Sph.''237d, the Art. is used as in Il. cc. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] ὁ, ἡ, τό B.1.5: later <b class="b3">ὅ τις</b> (or <b class="b3">ὁ τὶς</b>) much like [[ὁ δεῖνα]], δεῦρο ὅ τις θεός, ὄφθητί μοι in a general formula of invocation, ''PMag.Par.''1.236; <b class="b3">αἴρω σε, ἥ τις βοτάνη</b> ib.287; <b class="b3">εἰς τήν τινα κρείαν</b> (leg. [[χρείαν]]) ib.289.<br><span class="bld">c</span> freq. in opposed clauses, ὁ μέν τις... ὁ δὲ.. E.''Med.''1141, ''Hec.''624, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Phaedo|Phd.]]'' 99b, etc.; ὁ μέν τις... ἄλλος δὲ.. E.''IT''1407; ὁ μὲν... ὁ δέ τις.. [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''1.4.15: pl., οἱ μέν τινες... οἱ δὲ.. [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.127, cf. Th.2.91; οἱ μέν τινες... οἱ δὲ... οἱ δέ τινες [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''3.2.10, etc.; <b class="b3">οἱ μὲν... οἱ δέ τινες..</b>ib.6.1.26, etc.: also combined with other alternative words, ὁ μέν τις... ὁ δέ τις... ἕτερος δέ τις.. Id.''Smp.''2.6; <b class="b3">ὁ μὲν... ἕτερος δέ τις... ὁ δὲ..</b>, etc., Ar. ''Pl.''162 sq.: also in neut., τὸ μέν τι... τὸ δέ τι.. Pl.''Ep.''358a; τὸ μέν τι... τὸ δὲ.. [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.40; in adverb. sense, <b class="b3">τὸ μὲν... τὸ δέ τι..</b> [[partly]]... [[partly]].., Plb.1.73.4; and τι remains unaltered even when the Art. is pl., τὰ μέν τι μαχόμενοι, τὰ δὲ καὶ ἀναπαυόμενοι X.''An.''4.1.14, cf. ''HG''7.1.46; also <b class="b3">τὸ δέ τι..</b>but [[in some]] measure... without <b class="b3">τὸ μέν</b> preceding, Th.1.107, cf. 118, 7.48.<br><span class="bld">d</span> later τις is used as in b supr. but without the Art., <b class="b3">γράψον.. ὅτι τι καί τι εἴληφας</b> that you have received [[such]] and [[such]] things, ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''937.22 (iii A.D.); <b class="b3">κληρονόμους καταλείπω τὴν θυγατέρα μού τινα καὶ τὸν σύντροφον αὐτῆς τινα καί τινα</b> ib.1034.2 (ii A.D.); <b class="b3">τίς τινι χαίρειν</b> ''A'' to ''B'' greeting (in a draft letter), ib.509 (ii A.D.).<br><span class="bld">II</span> the neut. τι is used,<br><span class="bld">a</span> collectively, <b class="b3">ἦν τι καὶ ἐν ταῖς Συρακούσαις</b> there was a [[party]].., Th.7.48; so perhaps <b class="b3">τῶν ἄλλων οὔ πέρ τι πεφυγμένον ἐστ' Ἀφροδίτην, οὔτε θεῶν, οὔτ' ἀνθρώπων</b> no [[class]], h.Ven.34 (but masc. τις in ''h.Merc.'' 143).<br><span class="bld">b</span> euphemism for something bad, v. supr. 3.<br><span class="bld">c</span> joined with Verbs, [[somewhat]], [[in any degree]], [[at all]], ἦ ῥά τί μοι κεχολώσεαι Il.5.421; παρεθάρρυνέ τι αὐτούς X.''HG''6.4.7, etc.: with Adjs. or Adverbs, <b class="b3">οὕτω δή τι ἰσχυραί, οὕτω δή τι πολύγονον</b>, etc., [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.12, 108, cf. 4.52; so also [[ὀλίγον]] τι ἧσσον Od.15.365; οὐδέ τι μᾶλλον [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]6.123, etc.; ἧσσόν τι Th.3.75, etc.; <b class="b3">οὐ πάνυ τι, πολύ τι, σχεδόν τι</b>, v. [[πάνυ]] 1.3, πολύς 111.1a, 2a, [[σχεδόν]] IV; also in conjunction with οὐδέν, μηδέν, οὐδέν τι πάντως [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]6.3; <b class="b3">οὐδέν, μηδέν τι μᾶλλον</b>, E.''Alc.''522, [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''280; μηδέν τι λίαν E.''Andr.''1234:—also <b class="b3">καί τι καὶ.. ὑποψίᾳ</b> [[in part]] also from suspicion, Th.1.107; καί πού τι καί Pi.''O.''1.28.<br><span class="bld">12</span> <b class="b3">τίς τε</b> freq. in Hom., ὡς ὅτε τίς τε Il.3.33, 4.141, v. [[τε]] B.<br><span class="bld">13</span> <b class="b3">ἤ τις ἢ οὐδείς</b> [[few]] or none, [[next to none]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.140, [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''7.5.45, D.C.47.5, 48.4; <b class="b3">ἤ τι ἢ οὐδέν</b> [[little]] or nothing, Pl.''Ap.''17b; ἢ οὐδεὶς ἤ τις D.C.41.62 ([[si vera lectio|s. v.l.]]).<br><span class="bld">14</span> τις is pleonast. in such phrases as <b class="b3">οὐδέν τι</b> or <b class="b3">μηδέν τι</b>, v. supr. 11c.<br><span class="bld">b</span> repeated in successive clauses, ὅσα λέγει τις ἢ πράσσειτις ἢψέγειν ἔχει S.''Ant.''689; εἴ τις δύο ἢ καὶ πλέους τις ἡμέρας λογίζεται Id.''Tr.''944 (where however <b class="b3">κἄτι πλείους</b> is prob. cj.), cf. E.''Or.''1218 (whereas τις is sometimes omitted in the first clause, οὔτε φωνὴν οὔτε του μορφὴν βροτῶν A.''Pr.''21, cf. S.''Tr.''3): but in E.''Andr.'' 734, <b class="b3">ἔστι γάρ τις οὐ πρόσω.. πόλις τις</b>, the repetition is pleonastic, as also in A.''Supp.''57 sq. (lyr., [[si vera lectio|s. v.l.]]).<br><span class="bld">15</span> τις is sometimes omitted, <b class="b3">οὐδέ κεν ἔνθα τεόν γε μένος καὶ χεῖρας ὄνοιτο</b> (''[[sc.]] '' τις) Il.13.287; <b class="b3">ὡς δ' ἐν ὀνείρῳ οὐ δύναται</b> (''[[sc.]] '' τις) φεύγοντα διώκειν 22.199, cf. S.''OC''1226 (lyr.), ''Leg.Gort.''2.2, X.''Smp.''5.2, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Gorgias|Grg.]]'' 456d: τις must often be supplied from what goes before, ib.478c, ''Prt.''319d.<br><span class="bld">b</span> sometimes also [[τις]] is omitted before a gen. case which must depend upon it, as ἢ [τις] τᾶς ἀσώτου Σισυφιδᾶν γενεᾶς [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''189 (lyr.); <b class="b3">ἢν γαμῇ ποτ' αὐτὸς ἢ [τις]</b> τῶν ξυγγενῶν Ar.''Nu.''1128; ἐν τῶν πόλεων ''IG''12.56.14.—Cf. <b class="b3">ὅστις, οὔτις, μήτις, ἄλλο τι</b>.<br><span class="bld">III</span> Accentuation and position of τις:<br><span class="bld">1</span> accentuation: τις is normally enclitic, but in certain uses is orthotone, i.e. theoretically oxytone (<b class="b3">τίς, τινά, τινές, τινῶν</b>, etc., cf. Choerob. ''in Theod.''1.373 H.) and barytone when followed by another word ([[τὶς]] or τις<b class="b3">, τινὰ, τινὲς, τινῶν</b>, etc.). According to Sch. D.T.p.240 H. its orthotone accent is [[τίς]] (not [[τὶς]]) <b class="b3">, τίνα, τίνες</b>, etc. The orthotone form is used in codd.:<br><span class="bld">a</span> at the beginning of a sentence, <b class="b3">τίς ἔνδον..</b>; is [[any one]] within? A.''Ch.''654 ([[τὶς]] cj. Hermann); <b class="b3">τί φημι</b>; = [[λέγω τι]]; am I saying [[anything]]? S.''Tr.''865, ''OT''1471;<br><span class="bld">b3}τίς ἦλθε;> ἦλθέ τις</b> has [[anybody]] come? ''Somebody'' has come, Sch.D.T. [[l.c.]]; <b class="b3">τὶς κάθηται, τὶς περιπατεῖ</b>, [[so and so]] is sitting (walking), S.E.''M.''8.97; <b class="b3">τὶς αἰπόλος καλούμενος Κομάτας</b> Sch.Theoc.7.78; τίς ποτε οἰκοδεσπότης.. ἐκοπία Aesop. in ''Glossaria'' iii p.41; or after a pause, πῶς γὰρ ἄν, ἔφην ἐγώ, ὦ βέλτιστε, τὶς ἀποκρίναιτο [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 337e; <b class="b3">τι οὖν</b> (τὶς ἂν εἴποι) <b class="b3"> ταῦτα λέγεις</b>; D.1.14 ([[varia lectio|v.l.]]); ἔντοσθεν δὲ γυνά, τι θεῶν δαίδαλμα Theoc.1.32; οὐ γυμνὸν τὸ [[φίλαμα]], τι δ' ὦ ξένε καὶ πλέον ἑξεῖς Mosch.1.5 ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] for [[τὺ]]).<br><span class="bld">b</span> when τις is opp. to another τις or to some other word, τισὶ μὲν συμφέρει, τισὶ δ' οὐ συμφέρει Arist.''Pol.''1284b40, cf. Th.2.92, Pl.''Cri.''49a, D. 9.2; τινὲς μὲν οὖν... ἡμεῖς δὲ.. Sor.1.1; τὸ τὶ μὲν ψεῦδος ἔχον, τὶ δὲ ἀληθές S.E.''M.''8.127; ἀλλὰ τινὰ μὲν... τινὰ δὲ.. Gem.14.6; ποτὲ μὲν πρὸς πάντα, ποτὲ δὲ πρὸς τινά Sor.1.48: without such opposition, <b class="b3">τοῦτ' εἰς ἀνίαν τοὔπος ἔρχεται τινί</b> for a [[certain]] [[person]], [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''1138. Codd. are not consistent; in signf.11.5a, 10c, 13 they make it enclitic; in signf. 11.5b sometimes enclitic, sometimes orthotone (v. supr.); sometimes enclitic and orthotone in the same sentence, πάντα δὲ τὰ γιγνόμενα ὑπό τέ τινος γίγνεται καὶ ἔκ τινος καὶ τί [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Metaphysics|Metaph.]]''1032a14, cf. Pl.''Chrm.''165c.<br><span class="bld">2</span> position:<br><span class="bld">a</span> τις is rarely first word in the sentence, and rarely follows a pause (v. supr. 111.1a, b); it may stand second word, ἔσκε τις ἐνθάδε μάντις ἀνήρ Od.9.508, cf. Il.8.515, 23.331; but in general its position is not far before or after the word to which it belongs in sense, ἀλλ' ἄγε δή τινα μάντιν ἐρείομεν 1.62; φυλακὴ δέ τις ἔμπεδος ἔστω 8.521.<br><span class="bld">b</span> in Ion. Prose it sometimes stands between its genitive and the Article of that genitive, τῶν τις Περσέων [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.85; τῶν τις ἱρέων Id.2.38; τῶν τινες Φοινίκων Id.8.90; ἐς τῶν τι ἄλλο στομάτων τοῦ Νείλου Id.2.179; so also in late Prose, Ath.3.108d, Eust.1402.18, 1659.27, 1676.1.<br><span class="bld">c</span> it stands between the Art. and Subst. in signf.11.10b.<br><span class="bld">d</span> <b class="b3">τίς τι</b> is the correct order, not <b class="b3">τί τις</b>, ''IG''12.110.46, Th.7.10, X.''An.''4.1.14 (codd. dett.), D.22.22, etc.<br><span class="bld">e</span> whereas in Att. the order <b class="b3">ἐάν τις</b> is compulsory, in Dor. the usual order is <b class="b3">αἴ τίς κα</b>, ''Leg.Gort.''9.43, al., ''Tab.Heracl.''1.105, al. (but αἴ κά τις Epich.35, 159; αἰ δέ κα μή τις ''Leg.Gort.''5.13): later Dor. [[εἴ]] τί κα ''GDI''2101.3, al.; <b class="b3">καἴ τι ἂν</b>(= [[καὶ εἴ τι ἂν]]) ''IG''5(1).1390.50 (Andania, i B.C., v. infr. B.11.1b):—this Dor. order influenced the Koine, as in the rare εἴ τις ἂν Plu.''TG''15.