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examples as the ones discussed in 3.2.2 do not occur in the papyri of the
2d and 3d centuries; among these papyri there are some which are so
"vulgar" that the occurrence of önov in its new sense might have been
expected. It may be safely assumed, therefore, that it was not used as
a substitute for the relat. pronoun before the 5th century (the Apophthegmata
Patrum, which offer us the earliest example, date from around 500).
2. The relat. pronoun önov (ónov, nov) occurs in all the Modern Greek
dialects, even in the most conservative ones, as Pontian, Tsaconian and
the dialects of South-Italy 323. Thus it cannot be a recent development.
3. Of the examples mentioned in 3.2.2 those stemming from texts
written by Leontius of Neapolis are the last ones until the 12th century.
This means that from the 7th until the 12th century önov used as arelat.
pronoun does not occur. This fa ct would form a strong argument against
our theory, if we were not aware of the fact that the authors of the texts
written during those centuries may have suppressed it as a too vulgar
form 324. In a somewhat lesser degree the same has happened to the ot her
relat. pronoun, TOY T~Y TÓ 325. We mayalso remind ourselves of the fact
that judging from the texts we have to conclude that the pronomen
abundans, too, had been given up 326.
4. Toy T~Y TÓ
4.1. Attic
In the 4th cent. B.C. the ancient Ionian relat. pronoun (} 1] TO penetrated
into the Attic dialect, though only in those forms which begin with T- 327.
The coincidence of the relat. forms (} 1] oï aï and those of the article
ó ~ Ol al may have cooperated 328 . This pionoun has never been able to
work its way into the official language. It occurs only in some vulgar
inscriptions 329 :
CIA II 611,11 (300 B.C.) ... J)'JI Te aVToç f:x,v(!{evaey "al Tà n(!oç rovç
aÀ.A.ovç è~eAoy{aaTo 330.
4.2. Koine
From the Attic it entered into the Koine, but it does not occur in the
literary Koine, nor in "Fachprosa", nor in the LXX and NT. It is found
only in papyri 331 :
323 See Hesseling, II OV, p. 220.
324 It goes without saying that in the spoken language the traditional relat.
pronouns and 8nov (and TOV rYlv TO) have existed next to each other for some time.
One can only guess how long it lasted until 8nov got the upperhand.
325 See the next chapter.
326 See 2.3.
327 See Jannaris, § 1438 and Psaltes, § 312.
328 See Dieterich, p . 198 and Thumb, Hell., p. 87.
329 See Schwyzer-Debrunner, p. 642,7.
330 For more examples see Meisterhans, p . 156, note 1327.
331 See Brugmann- Thumb, p. 645 and Schwyzer-Debrunner, p. 642,7.