Mathew 6:13 accent

[mahasacham]

In the alternate ending of Mathew 6:13 contained in the byzantine/majority text:

Ὅτι σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας.

The τους sometimes has a grave accent in some of the editions and other times has a circumflex accent.

This is also true across other printed received manuscripts. The textus receptus on blue letter Bible has a circumflex.

Is there an accent rule I'm missing that turns a grave accent on this definite article to a circumflex when it normally has a grave? Is the εἰς doing something.

[Lukas]

For what it is worth, my Orthodox Liturgy book has a grave accent.

[jeidsath]

τοῦς occurs 342 times in the TLG, always in later Greek. It's possible that it comes from the pronunciation confusion between final circumflex and final grave in stress-based Greek. But unless we can find some manuscripts that support that, it's as likely to come from bad digitization.

[Lukas]

What is the TLG? I have seen this abbreviation in this thread and another recently.

[seneca2008]

The TLG is the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/

[Lukas]

Χάριν ἔχειν

[Barry Hofstetter]

For a nice general introduction to accents:

http://ucbclassics.dreamhosters.com/anc ... tionU.html