Mathew 6:13 accent

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Mathew 6:13 accent

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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.

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For what it is worth, my Orthodox Liturgy book has a grave accent.
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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.
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What is the TLG? I have seen this abbreviation in this thread and another recently.
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The TLG is the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/
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For a nice general introduction to accents:

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