A. FORMS: gen. “ἕο” Il.5.343, al., εὗ v.l. in Od.19.446 (ap.A.D.Pron.76.15, etc.), al., “εἷο” Il.4.400, Od.22.19, “ἑοῦ” A.D.Pron. 77.10; ἑο enclit., Od.14.461, “εὑ” Il.14.427, al., Hdt.3.135; ἕθεν is another Ep. form, Il.3.128,al. (used by A.Supp.66 (lyr.)), enclit. in Il. 9.686, al.; “ϝέθεν” Alc.11; οὗ ἕθεν together, A.R.1.362, 4.1471; εἷο for ἐμοῦ, Id.2.635: Att. οὗ, but rarely used, S.OT1257, Pl.Smp.174d, R.393e, 614b: Locr. ϝέος dub. in IG9(1).334.33 (v B. C.): Boeot. “ἑοῦς” Corinn.2: Dor. ϝίο (γίο cod.) Hsch.: late Ep. “ἑοῖο” A.R.1.1032 (v.l. ἑεῖο): dat. “οἷ” Od.11.433, al., enclit. in 1.17, al. (enclit. οἱ perh. as gen., Il.16.531, Archil.29, Hdt.1.60, 3.15, A.R.3.371, Theoc.25.66, cf.Sch. Il.19.384 and “ἐγώ” 11): Delph. ϝοι GDI2561 D14 (also Aeol., Sapph. 111): Att. “οἷ” Pl.Smp.174e, X.An.1.1.8, enclit. οἱ A.Ag.1147 (lyr.), Th.2.13, al., Antipho 5.93, And.1.38, Pl.Phlb.60d, al., X.Mem.1.2.32, etc.: ἑοῖ twice in Hom., Il.13.495, Od.4.38; ἑοῖ αὐτῇ used of the 1 pers., A.R.3.99: for ϝίν, ἵν, v. ἵ: Boeot. “ἑΐν” Corinn.36: acc. “ἕ” Il.4.497, al., Pi.O.9.14, enclit. “ἑ” Il.1.236, al., never in Trag., Com., Th., Hdt., or X., but found in Pl.Smp.175a,al.; ἑέ twice in Hom., Il. 20.171, 24.134 (perh. with elision in 14.162, 17.551); ἑ as fem. pl., h.Ven.267; ϝηέ dub. in GDI1267.23 (Pamphylia): for the forms σφε, μιν, νιν, ἵ, σφωέ, σφεῖς, v. sub vocc.
B. MEANINGS:
I. him, her, “ἐπεί ἑό φημι βίῃ πολὺ φέρτερος εἶναι” Il.15.165; “ἅλις δέ οἱ: ἀλλὰ ἕκηλος ἐρρέτω: ἐκ γάρ εὑ φρένας εἵλετο μητίετα Ζεύς” 9.376-7; “περὶ κεῖνον ὀΐζυε καί ἑ φύλασσε” 3.408; “ἡ δέ οἱ κόμη ὤμους κατεσκίαζε” Archil.29, etc.: this use is not found in Prose, exc. in dialects, IG4.506 (Argos), 7.2407.7 (Boeot.), Berl.Sitzb.1927.169 (Cyrene); ἀπέλαβε τήν οἱ ὁ πατὴρ εἶχε ἀρχήν his father, Hdt.3.15, cf. 4.50, al.
II. as ἐμέ can be used reflexively (“αὐτὰρ ἐγὼν ἐμὲ λύσομαι” Il.10.378), so also ἕ (οὗ, οἷ)“, Ἀχιλῆα, ἕο μέγ᾽ ἀμείνονα φῶτα, ἠτίμησεν” Il.2.239; “ἡ δ᾽ ἔξοχα λυγρὰ ἰδυῖα οἷ τε κατ᾽ αἶσχος ἔχευε καὶ ἐσσομένῃσιν ὀπίσσω” Od.11.433; “ἡ δὲ . . ἀπὸ ἕο κάββαλεν υἱόν” Il.5.343: later this reflex. sense is found only when the Pron. is used in a subordinate clause or construction (esp. acc. c. inf.) and refers to the subject of the principal Verb, e.g. “προηγόρευε τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις . . ὅτι Ἀρχίδαμος μέν οἱ ξένος εἴη . . καὶ μηδεμίαν οἱ ὑποψίαν κατὰ ταῦτα γίγνεσθαι” Th.2.13.
2. οὗ ἕ οἷ in combination with αὐτοῦ, αὐτόν, etc. forms a reflex. Pron. used without the foregoing restriction: in Hom. the two words are separate, e.g. “πειρήθη δ᾽ ἕο αὐτοῦ ἐν ἔντεσι δῖος Ἀχιλλεύς” Il.19.384, cf. 5.64, al.: later they form one word, v. ἑαυτοῦ. [ὅς 'ϝ᾽ ἄξει, i.e. with elision of 'ϝέ, must be read or understood for ὃς ἄξει, Il.24.154, in view of ὅς σ᾽ ἄξει in l. 183, and so prob. in 1.195 (cf. 208), 4.315 (ὥς 'ϝ᾽), 16.545 (μή 'ϝ᾽), Od.5.135 (ἠδέ 'ϝ᾽): so ἔνθα 'ϝ(οι) ἔσαν is conjectured for “ἔνθ᾽ ἔσαν οἱ” Il.6.289 (cf. ἔνθα οἱ “ἦσαν ὕες” Od.15.556), also ἀμφὶ δέ 'ϝ(οι) ὄσσε in Il.5.310: the elided acc. ϝ᾽ is prob. to be recognized in “δὸς δέ ϝ᾽ ἰν ἀνθρο?ποις δόξαν ἔχε_ν ἀγαθ(ά)ν” IG14.652 (Metapontum), rather than ϝιν.] (ἕ from *swe, ἑέ from *sewe, cogn. with ὅς (Possess.) and ἑός, qq. v.)