__A.II.1 some one (of many), i.e. many a one, ὧδε δέ τις εἴπεσκεν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.201, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: sometimes with meiosis, implying all or men,[[ 13.638, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.224 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; so in Prose, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.49 near the end, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.37, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.2 any one concerned, every one, εὖ μέν τις δόρυ θηξάσθω [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.382 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀλλά τις αὐτὸς ἴτω let every man come himself,[[ 17.254; ἵνα τις στυγέῃσι καὶ ἄλλος 8.515, compare 16.209, 17.227, +others] Refs]; so in Trag. and Attic dialect, even with the imperative, τοῦτό τις.. ἴστω S [[ “Aj.” 417 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 346, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1187; ἀγορεύω τινὶ ἐμὲ μὴ βασανίζειν [prev. author] “Ra.” 628 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοὺς ξυμμάχους αὐτόν τινα κολάζειν that every man should himself chastise his own allies, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.40, compare 6.77; ὅ τί τις ἐδύνατο [prev. author] 7.75 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄμεινόν τινος better than any others, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.66, compare 19.35 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—this is more fully expressed by adding other pronominal words, τις ἕκαστος [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.65, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.31, etc.; πᾶς τις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1205, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.80, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.94, etc.; ἅπας τις 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.113, etc.; οὐδέν τι μᾶλλον [prev. author] 4.118 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]. In these senses, τις is frequently combined with plural words, οἱ κακοὶ.. οὐκ ἴσασι, πρίν τις ἐκβάλῃ, for πρὶν ἐκβάλωσι, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 965 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἷς ἂν ἐπίω, ἧσσόν τις πρόσεισι, for ἧσσον προσίασι, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.85; ἐτόλμα τις.., ὁρῶντες [prev. author] 2.53, compare 7.75 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially after εἴ or ἤν τις, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.62, +others ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.3 in reference to a definite person, whom one wishes to avoid naming, οὐκ ἔφασαν ἰέναι, ἐὰν μή τις χρήματα διδῷ (i.e. Cyrus) [[ [prev. author] “An.” 1.4.12, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 552, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.122 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so also euphemistic for something bad, ἤν τι ποιῶμεν [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.74; ἂν οὗτός τι πάθῃ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.11 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence for the 1st pers. or 2nd pers. pronoun, ἅ τιν᾽ οὐ πείσεσθαι ὀΐω [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.289, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 751 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ποῖ τις τρέψετα; for ποῖ τρέψομα; [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 603, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 245 (Lyric poetry), 1138, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.59, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.40, 5.7.31, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.4 indefinitely, where we say they, French on, sometimes with an ironical force, φοβεῖταί τις [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 59 (Lyric poetry); μισεῖ τις ἐκεῖνον 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.8 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; as vocative, τὸν Πλοῦτον ἔξω τις κάλει call P. out, somebody, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1196. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.5 τις, τι may be opposed, expressly or by implication, to οὐδείς, οὐδέν, and mean somebody, something, by meiosis for some great one, some great thing, ηὔχεις τις εἶναι you boasted that you were somebody, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 939; εἰσὶν ὅμως τινὲς οἱ εὐδοκιμοῦντες 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1293b13; τὸ δοκεῖν τιν᾽ εἶναι 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 156; τὸ δοκεῖν τινὲς εἶναι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.213; ὡς σὲ μὲν ἐν τῇ πόλει δεῖ τινὰ φαίνεσθαι, τὴν πόλιν δ᾽ ἐν τοῖς Ἕλλησι μηδενὸς ἀξίαν εἶναι [prev. author] 10.71 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κἠγών τις φαίνομαι ἦμεν after all I too am somebody, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 11.79, cf. NT.Act.5.36 ] NT+3rd c.BC+]; also in neuter, οἴονταί τι εἶναι ὄντες οὐδενὸς ἄξιοι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 41e, compare “Phd.” 63c, “Phdr.” 243a, “Euthd.” 303c, etc.:— so τι λέγειν to be near the mark, opposed to οὐδὲν λέγειν, [prev. author] “Prt.” 339c, “R.” 329e, “Phdr.” 260a, etc.; ἵνα καὶ εἰδῶμεν εἴ τι ὅδε λέγει [prev. author] “Cra.” 407e; οἴεσθέ τι ποιεῖν, οὐδὲν ποιοῦντες [prev. author] “Smp.” 173c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.6 with (Proper name)s τις commonly signifies one named so-and-so, ἦν δέ τις ἐν Τρώεσσι Δάρης [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.9, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.4, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; with a sense of contempt, Θερσίτης τις ἦν there was one Thersites, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 442. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.6.b one of the same sort, converting the (Proper name) into an appellative, ἤ τις Ἀπόλλων ἢ Πάν an Apollo or a Pan, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 55 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; [πόλιες] ταὶ μέλονται πρός τινος ἢ Διὸς ἢ γλαυκᾶς Ἀθάνας Lyric poetry in [[ “PVat.” 11v xi7; Σκύλλαν τινά 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1233, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 181, “Av.” 512, “Ra.” 912: so also ὥς τις ἥλιος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 288 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἰσθμόν τιν᾽ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 647. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.7 with adjectives τις combines to express the idea of a substantive used as predicate, ὥς τις θαρσαλέος καὶ ἀναιδής ἐσσι προΐκτης a bold and impudent beggar, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.449, compare 18.382, 20.140, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.220 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐγώ τις, ὡς ἔοικε, δυσμαθής a dullard, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 358a, compare “Prt.” 340e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φόβου πλέα τις εἶ a coward, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 696, compare “Th.” 979 (Lyric poetry), “Ag.” 1140 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὡς ταχεῖά τις.. χάρις διαρρεῖ in what swift fashion (={ταχέως πως}), [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1266, compare “OT” 618, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.198 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δεινόν τι ποιεύμενος thinking it a terrible thing, [[ [prev. author] 3.155, 5.33. ] Refs]
__A.II.8 with numerals and adjectives expressing number, size, or the like, εἷς δέ τις ἀρχὸς ἀνὴρ.. ἔστω some one man, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.144; ἕνα τιν᾽ ἂν καθεῖσεν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 911; δώσει δέ τι ἕν γε φέρεσθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.83; τινὰ μίαν νύκτα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.61; προσκαλεσάμενός τινας δύο τῶν ἑκατονταρχῶν NT.Act.23.23 ] NT+8th c.BC+]; sometimes the τις softens the definiteness of the numeral, ἑπτά τινες some seven, seven or so, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.34; ἐς διακοσίους τινάς [prev. author] 3.111, compare 7.87, 8.21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so without an actual numeral, ἡμέρας τινάς some days, i.e. several, [[ [prev. author] 3.52 ] Refs]; στρατῷ τινι of a certain amount, considerable, [[ [prev. author] 8.3 ] Refs]; ἐνιαυτόν τινα a year or so, [[ [prev. author] 3.68 ] Refs]; so οὐ πολλοί τινες, τινὲς οὐ πολλοί, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 510, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.94, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀλίγοι τινές or τινὲς ὀλίγοι [[ [prev. author] 2.17, 3.7 ] Refs]; οὔ τινα πολλὸν χρόνον no very long time, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.48; τις στρατιὰ οὐ πολλή 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.61 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so also ὅσσος τις χρυσός what a store of gold, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.45, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.193, 2.18, etc.; κόσοι τινές [prev. author] 7.234; πηλίκαι τινὲς τιμωρίαι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 20.3; πολλὸς γάρ τις ἔκειτο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.156; ἐκ πολλοῦ τευ χρόνου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.58. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__A.II.10.a when a noun with the Article is in apposition with τις, as ὅταν δ᾽ ὁ κύριος παρῇ τις when the person in authority, whoever he be, is here, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 289 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοὺς αὐτοέντας.. τιμωρεῖν τινας (variant τινα) [[ [prev. author] “OT” 107. ] Refs]
__A.II.10.b in Philosophic writers, τις is added to the Article to show that the Article is used to denote a particular individual who is not specified in the general formula, although he would be in the particular case, ὁ τὶς ἄνθρωπος the individual man (whoever he may be), this or that man, opposed to ἄνθρωπος (man in general), ὁ τὶς ἵππος, ἡ τὶς γραμματική, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Categoriae” 1b4, 8 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὸ τὶ μέγεθος, opposed to ὅλως τὸ μέγεθος, [[ [prev. author] “Pol.” 1283a4, compare 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 2.223; but in ἑνὸς γὰρ τό γε τὶ φήσεις σημεῖον εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 237d ] Refs 5th c.BC+], the Article is used as in [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”] Refs 8th c.BC+] cc. (which see) ὁ, ἡ, τό [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.5: later ὅ τις (or ὁ τὶς) much like{ὁ δεῖνα}] Refs 5th c.BC+], δεῦρο ὅ τις θεός, ὄφθητί μοι in a general formula of invocation, [[ “PMag.Par.” 1.236; αἴρω σε, ἥ τις βοτάνη [prev. work]287; εἰς τήν τινα κρείαν (to be read χρείαν) [prev. work]289. ] Refs]
__A.II.10.d later τις is used as in b above but without the Article, γράψον.. ὅτι τι καί τι εἴληφας that you have received such and such things, [[ “POxy.” 937.22 (3rd c.AD); κληρονόμους καταλείπω τὴν θυγατέρα μού τινα καὶ τὸν σύντροφον αὐτῆς τινα καί τινα [prev. work] 1034.2 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τίς τινι χαίρειν [[ A to B greeting (in a draft letter),[prev. work] (2nd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__A.II the neuter τι is used,
__A.II.a collectively, ἦν τι καὶ ἐν ταῖς Συρακούσαις there was a party.. , [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.48 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so perhaps τῶν ἄλλων οὔ πέρ τι πεφυγμένον ἐστ᾽ Ἀφροδίτην, οὔτε θεῶν, οὔτ᾽ ἀνθρώπων no class, [[ hymnus ad Venerem 34] Refs] (but masculine τις in [[ “hymnus ad Mercurium” 143). ] Refs]
__A.II.b euphemistic for something bad, see above [[ 3. ] Refs]
__A.II.c joined with Verbs, somewhat, in any degree, at all, ἦ ῥά τί μοι κεχολώσεαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.421; παρεθάρρυνέ τι αὐτούς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.4.7, etc.: with _adjectives_ or Adverbs, οὕτω δή τι ἰσχυραί, οὕτω δή τι πολύγονον, etc., 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.12, 108, compare 4.52; so also ὀλίγον τι ἧσσον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.365; οὐδέ τι μᾶλλον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.123, etc.; ἧσσόν τι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.75, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐ πάνυ τι, πολύ τι, σχεδόν τι, see at {πάνυ} [[ 1.3, πολύς 111.1a, 2a, σχεδόν IV] Refs]; also in conjunction with οὐδέν, μηδέν, οὐδέν τι πάντως [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐδέν, μηδέν τι μᾶλλον, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 522, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 280; μηδέν τι λίαν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 1234:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —also καί τι καὶ.. ὑποψίᾳ in part also from suspicion, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.107; καί πού τι καί 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.28. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.13 ἤ τις ἢ οὐδείς few or none, next to none, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.140, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.45, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 47.5, 48.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἤ τι ἢ οὐδέν little or nothing, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 17b; ἢ οὐδεὶς ἤ τις 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 41.62 (assuming variant). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.14 τις is pleonastic in such phrases as οὐδέν τι or μηδέν τι, see above [[ 11c. ] Refs]
__A.II.14.b repeated in successive clauses, ὅσα λέγει τις ἢ πράσσειτις ἢψέγειν ἔχει [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 689; εἴ τις δύο ἢ καὶ πλέους τις ἡμέρας λογίζεται [prev. author] “Tr.” 944 (where however κἄτι πλείους is probably conjecture),compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1218 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (whereas τις is sometimes omitted in the first clause, οὔτε φωνὴν οὔτε του μορφὴν βροτῶν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 21, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 3): but in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 734, ἔστι γάρ τις οὐ πρόσω.. πόλις τις] Refs 5th c.BC+], the repetition is pleonastic, as also in [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 57f (Lyric poetry, assuming variant). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.II.15 τις is sometimes omitted, οὐδέ κεν ἔνθα τεόν γε μένος καὶ χεῖρας ὄνοιτο (i.e. τις) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.287 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὡς δ᾽ ἐν ὀνείρῳ οὐ δύναται (i.e. τις) φεύγοντα διώκειν [[ 22.199, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1226 (Lyric poetry), “Leg.Gort.” 2.2, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 5.2, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 456d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: τις must often be supplied from what goes before,[[ [prev. work] 478c, “Prt.” 319d. ] Refs]
__A.II.15.b sometimes also τις is omitted before a genitive case which must depend upon it, as ἢ [τις] τᾶς ἀσώτου Σισυφιδᾶν γενεᾶς [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 189 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἢν γαμῇ ποτ᾽ αὐτὸς ἢ [τις] τῶν ξυγγενῶν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1128; ἐν τῶν πόλεων “IG” 12.56.14.--Cf. ὅστις, οὔτις, μήτις, ἄλλο τι. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.III Accentuation and position of τις:
__A.III.1 accentuation: τις is normally enclitic, but in certain uses is orthotone, i.e. theoretically oxytone (τίς, τινά, τινές, τινῶν, etc.,[[compare 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 1.373 H.) and barytone when followed by another word (τὶς] Refs 4th c.AD+] or τις, τινὰ, τινὲς, τινῶν, etc.). According to [[ Scholia 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus p.240 H. its orthotone accent is τίς (not τὶς), τίνα, τίνες, etc. The orthotone form is used in codices: ] Refs]
__A.III.1.a at the beginning of a sentence, τίς ἔνδον..; is any one within? [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 654 (τὶς conjecture Hermann)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τί φημ; ={λέγω τι}; am I saying anything? [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 865, “OT” 1471 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; <τίς ἦλθ;> ἦλθέ τις has anybody come? [[ “Somebody” has come, Scholia 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus [same place] ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τὶς κάθηται, τὶς περιπατεῖ, so and so is sitting (walking), [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 8.97 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τὶς αἰπόλος καλούμενος Κομάτας [[Scholia 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.78; τίς ποτε οἰκοδεσπότης.. ἐκοπία 5th-4th c.BC: Aesopus Fabularum Scriptor in “Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum” iii ; or after a pause, πῶς γὰρ ἄν, ἔφην ἐγώ, ὦ βέλτιστε, τὶς ἀποκρίναιτο 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 337e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τι οὖν (τὶς ἂν εἴποι) ταῦτα λέγει; [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.14 (variant); ἔντοσθεν δὲ γυνά, τι θεῶν δαίδαλμα 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.32; οὐ γυμνὸν τὸ φίλαμα, τι δ᾽ ὦ ξένε καὶ πλέον ἑξεῖς 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 1.5 (variant for{τὺ}). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.III.1.b when τις is opposed to to another τις or to some other word, τισὶ μὲν συμφέρει, τισὶ δ᾽ οὐ συμφέρει [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1284b40, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.92, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 49a, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.2; τινὲς μὲν οὖν.., ἡμεῖς δὲ.. 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.1; τὸ τὶ μὲν ψεῦδος ἔχον, τὶ δὲ ἀληθές 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 8.127; ἀλλὰ τινὰ μὲν.., τινὰ δὲ.. 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 14.6; ποτὲ μὲν πρὸς πάντα, ποτὲ δὲ πρὸς τινά 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.48: without such opposition, τοῦτ᾽ εἰς ἀνίαν τοὔπος ἔρχεται τινί] Refs 5th c.BC+] for a certain person, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1138 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. Codices are not consistent; in signification[[ 11.5a, 10c, 13 ] Refs] they make it enclitic; in signification [[ 11.5b sometimes enclitic, sometimes orthotone (see. above)] Refs]; sometimes enclitic and orthotone in the same sentence, πάντα δὲ τὰ γιγνόμενα ὑπό τέ τινος γίγνεται καὶ ἔκ τινος καὶ τί [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1032a14, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 165c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.III.2 position:
__A.III.2.a τις is rarely first word in the sentence, and rarely follows a pause (see. above [[ 111.1a, b)] Refs]; it may stand second word, ἔσκε τις ἐνθάδε μάντις ἀνήρ [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.508, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.515, 23.331 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; 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. ] Refs]
__A.III.2.b in Ionic dialect Prose it sometimes stands between its genitive and the Article of that genitive, τῶν τις Περσέων [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.85; τῶν τις ἱρέων [prev. author] 2.38; τῶν τινες Φοινίκων [prev. author] 8.90; ἐς τῶν τι ἄλλο στομάτων τοῦ Νείλου [prev. author] 2.179 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so also in late Prose, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.108d, 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1402.18, 1659.27, 1676.1. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__A.III.2.c it stands between the Article and substantive in signification[[ 11.10b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.III.2.d τίς τι is the correct order, not τί τις, “IG” 12.110.46, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.10, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.1.14 (codices dett.), 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 22.22, etc.
__A.III.2.e whereas in _Attic dialect_ the order ἐάν τις is compulsory, in _Doric dialect_ the usual order is αἴ τίς κα, [[“Leg.Gort.” 9.43, +others, “Tab.Heracl.” 1.105, +others (but αἴ κά τις 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 35, 159; αἰ δέ κα μή τις “Leg.Gort.” 5.13)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: later Doric dialect εἴ τί κα [[ “GDI” 2101.3, +others] Refs]; καἴ τι ἂν (={καὶ εἴ τι ἂν}) [[ “IG” 5(1).1390.50 (Andania, 1st c.BC] Refs 1st c.BC+], see below [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 11.1b)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—this Doric dialect order influenced the Koine, as in the rare εἴ τις ἂν [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Tiberius Gracchus” 15. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
