Ancient Greek

Adjective

τοιόσδε • ‎(toiósde) m ‎(feminine τοιᾱ́δε, neuter τοιόνδε)

1. (proximal demonstrative adjective of quality) of this sort or kind, such
   1. (sometimes antecedent of relative adjective, τοιόσδε ... οἷος ..., τοιόσδε ... ὅς ...)
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.370–371

        ἐπεὶ τό γε καλὸν ἀκουέμεν ἐστὶν ἀοιδοῦ
        τοιοῦδ' οἷος ὅδ' ἐστί, θεοῖσ' ἐναλίγκιος αὐδήν.

        [Telemachus speaking to Penelope:]
        since it is good to listen to such a singer as this one is, in voice like the gods.

   2. (without relative pronoun)
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 16.205–206

        ἀλλ' ὅδ' ἐγὼ τοιόσδε, παθὼν κακά, πολλὰ δ' ἀληθείς,
        ἤλυθον εἰκοστῷ ἔτεϊ ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν.

        [Odysseus reuniting with Telemachus:]
        But I here in this way, after suffering evils and wandering far,
        have come in the twentieth year to my homeland.

   3. (implying a positive or negative adjective) so great, so bad
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.799

        ἦ μὲν δὴ μάλα πολλὰ μάχας εἰσήλυθον ἀνδρῶν
        ἀλλ' οὔ πω τοιόνδε τοσόνδέ τε λαὸν ὄπωπα·

        [Iris disguised as Polites speaking to the Trojans:]
        In my time I have gone very often to battles between men
        but have never seen such a great and numerous host as this.

   4. (indicating something immediately to come) the following
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.3.2

        καὶ πρῶτον μὲν ἐδάκρυε πολὺν χρόνον ἑστώς: οἱ δὲ ὁρῶντες ἐθαύμαζον καὶ ἐσιώπων: εἶτα δὲ ἔλεξε τοιάδε. ἄνδρες στρατιῶται, μὴ θαυμάζετε ὅτι χαλεπῶς φέρω τοῖς παροῦσι πράγμασιν.

        And first he stood and wept for a long time. Those watching him were amazed and stayed silent. Then he said the following: Men, soldiers, do not be amazed that I take the present situation so hard.

Usage notes

Often indicates something that will be said, in contrast with τοιοῦτος ‎(toioûtos), which indicates something that has already been said.

References

τοιόσδε in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• τοιόσδε in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τοιόσδε in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «τοιόσδε» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «τοιόσδε» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• τοιόσδε in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G5107”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • character idem, page 125.
  • kind idem, page 469.
  • nature idem, page 552.
  • sort idem, page 795.
  • such idem, page 834.