σφωέ

Ancient Greek

σφωέ • (sphōé)

Epic enclitic third person dual personal pronoun: they two, the two of them, both of them, these two
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.8
  τίς τ᾽ ἄρ σφωε θεῶν ἔριδι ξυνέηκε μάχεσθαι;
  tís t᾽ ár sphōe theôn éridi xunéēke mákhesthai?
  So which one of the gods brought these two [Achilles and Agamemnon] together to fight in a quarrel?

Irregular declension of σφωέ; σφωῐ̈ν (Epic)

Case / #	Dual
Nominative	σφωέ sphōé
Genitive	σφωῐ̈ν sphōïn
Dative	σφωῐ̈ν sphōïn
Accusative	σφωέ sphōé
Vocative	σφωέ sphōé
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

σφωέ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
σφωέ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963

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