STEP Liddell–Scott–Jones: ἡμῖν

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I: pronoun of the first person:—Epic dialect mostly ἐγών before vowels (so in Doric dialect, before consonants, [[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 85, 5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus 81, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 748, 754), rarely in Trag., 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 932 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect ἱών [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 51.4 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:— strengthened ἔγωγε, I at least, for my part, indeed, for myself (more frequently in Attic dialect than in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: Doric dialect ἐγώνγα [[ 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 51, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 736, “Lys.” 986, _dative_ ἐμίνγα “IG” 22.1126.7 (Amphict. Delph.)] Refs 7th c.BC+]: Boeotian dialect ἱώνγα [[ 6th c.BC: Corinna Lyrica 21 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἱώνει [[Ead. 10 ] Refs]; ἰώγα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 898 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: Laconian dialect and Tarentum dialect ἐγώνη, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Conjunctionibus;” 255.29. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]

__II oblique cases from a different root, genitive ἐμοῦ, enclitic μο; Ionic dialect and Epic dialect ἐμέο, ἐμεῦ, μευ, also ἐμέθεν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.525, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 177 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect ἔμεθεν [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 23.7; ἐμεῖο “IG” 3.1337; μεθέν 5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus 20 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; Doric dialect ἐμέος, ἐμεῦς, [[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 144 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect ἐμοῦς [[ 6th c.BC: Corinna Lyrica 37; also ἐμῶς, ἐμίο, ἐμίω, ἐμίως 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 74.17:] Refs 6th c.BC+] — _dative_ ἐμοί, enclitic μοι (which may be compared with Sanskrit genitive me in κλῦθί μοι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.115, +others); ὅ μοι πόσις “Schwyzer” 683 (5th c.AD: Cypria)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Doric dialect ἐμίν [[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 99, “AJA” 29.461 (Rhodian, 5th c.BC), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 733, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 4.30 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Tarentum dialect ἐμίνη [[ 3rd c.BC: Rhinthon Comicus 13: _accusative_ ἐμέ] Refs 3rd c.BC+], enclitic μ; [[ 5th c.AD: Cypria μι “Inscription Cyprian dialect” 59,60 H. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]

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__IV plural, nominative ἡμεῖς (ἡμέες falsa lectio in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.6, +others, rejected by 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 93.1)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect ἄμμες [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.303, 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 18.3, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.144 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Doric dialect ἁμές [[ 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 65, 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 42, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 168:— _genitive_ ἡμῶν (also ἥμων 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 130.23)] Refs 7th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect ἡμέων [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.112, etc.; ἡμείων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.170, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 1.46 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect ἀμμέων [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 88, “Milet.” 3 No.152.29] Refs 7th c.BC+]; ἄμμων [[[prev. work]74, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 95.3 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; Doric dialect ἁμέων [[ 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 66 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; ἁμῶν [[[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus] 266, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 168, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.158 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Cretan dialect, Boeotian dialect ἁμίων [[ “SIG” 528.5, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 95.21:— _dative_ ἡμῖν, in 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus also ἡμίν ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (ῐ) (or ἧμιν Aristarch.ad [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.214, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 95.3)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also rarely in Comedy texts, [[ 5th c.BC: Phrynichus Comicus 37, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 386 (uncertain)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect ἄμμῐν, ἄμμῐ, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.384, 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 80, +others, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.155, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 156 (Lyric poetry), “Milet.” 3 No.152; ἄμμεσιν 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 100 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Doric dialect also ἁμίν or ἇμιν, [[ 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 77, 78, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 347 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1081 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; with ῑ, [[ [prev. author] “Ach.” 821, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.145:— _accusative_ ἡμᾶς (also ἧμᾰς 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.372)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect ἡμέας [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.211, “SIG” 273.25 (Milet., 4th c.BC)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἥμεας [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.294 (cf. Hdn.Gr. 2.140)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect ἄμμε [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.59, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 115] Refs 8th c.BC+], Theocr.8.25; Doric dialect ἁμέ [[ “SIG” 1 (Abu Simbel, 6th c.BC), 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 173, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 759 codices, “Lys.” 95.] Refs 6th c.BC+]—On these dialectic varieties, [[see 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 50 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+] ff. (Cf. Sanskrit ahám (ἐγών), accusative plural asmā´n; for νώ cf. Sanskrit nau):—frequently in answers, as an affirmative, especially in form ἔγωγε, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1248, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 149b, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὗτος ἐ. here am [[ I, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 4.26; ὅδ᾽ ἐκεῖνος ἐ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 138 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; rarely with Article, τὸν ἐμέ myself, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 166a, “Sph.” 239b (but ὁ ἐ.] Refs 5th c.BC+] the Self, the Ego, [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 444)] Refs 5th c.AD+]; τίς ὢν οὗτος ὁ ἐγὼ τυγχάν; [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1119a; τί ἐστι φίλο; ἄλλος ἐ. 4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus cited in 5th c.AD: Hermias Alexandrinus Philosophus “in Platonis Phaedrum scholia” p.166 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τί τοῦτ᾽ ἐμο; ἡμῖν τί τοῦτ᾽ ἔστ; Latin quid mea hoc refert ? [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 498, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐγ; in a question, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1336, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡμεῖς the self, ἔνθα δὴ ἡμεῖς μάλιστα [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 1.1.7. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]