τοῖος, τοία
(Ionic dialect τοίη), τοῖον:—demonstrative pronoun, corresponding to the relative οἷος, interrogative ποῖος, and indefinite ποιός, such, such-like, common in Poets, but rare in Prose (where τοιόσδε or τοιοῦτος is used, see infr.): properly τοῖος requires an answering clause with οἷος, τοῖος ἐών, οἷος οὔ τις Ἀχαιῶν (i.e. ἐστίν) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.105, cf. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.342, +others; τοῖος ἐών, οἷόν κε.. ἴδησθε [prev. work] 421, cf. 1.257, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐ γάρ πω τοίους ἴδον.., οἷον Πειρίθοον (={οἷος Πειρίθοος ἦν}) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.262 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οἵηπερ φύλλων γενεή, τοίη δὲ (not τοιήδε) καὶ ἀνδρῶν [[ 6.146: for οἷος we have ὁποῖος, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.421 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; or simple relative pronoun, ἡμεῖς δ᾽ εἰμὲν τοῖοι, οἳ ἂν σέθεν ἀντιάσαιμεν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.231 (v. infr.), cf. 17.164, 24.153, 182, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.286, +others: rarely a _conjunction_ instead of a _relative_ ] Refs 8th c.BC+] adjective, τοῖον ὅπως ἐθέλει such as.., [[ 16.208: but τοῖος is sometimes _absolutely_, referring to something mentioned earlier, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.289, 390, 399, 5.828, 17.170, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 6(5).14, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 378 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 562, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 470 (_paratragoedia_), etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 with qualifying words, τεύχεσι τοῖον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.450; τ... ἐν πολέμῳ 18.105; τ. ἰδεῖν 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 216. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]