yself_ sui
_Dat._ mihi, _to myself_ tibi, _to thyself_ sibi[22]
_Acc._ me, _myself_ te, _thyself_ se or sese
_Voc._ ---- ---- ----
_Abl._ me, _with myself_, te, _with thyself_, se or sese
etc. etc.
1. The Reflexive of the Third Person serves for _all genders_ and for _both
numbers_. Thus sui may mean, _of himself_, _herself_, _itself_, or _of
themselves_; and so with the other forms.
2. All of the Reflexive Pronouns have at times a _reciprocal_ force; as,--
inter se pugnant, _they fight with each other_.
3. In early Latin, sed occurs as Accusative and Ablative.
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III. POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS.
86. These are strictly adjectives of the First and Second Declensions, and
are inflected as such. They are--
_First Person._ _Second Person._
meus, -a, -um, _my_; tuus, -a, -um, _thy_;
noster, nostra, nostrum, vester, vestra, vestrum,
_our_; _your_;
_Third Person._
suus, -a, -um, _his_, _her_, _its_, _their_.
1. Suus is exclusively Reflexive; as,--
pater liberos suos amat, _the father loves his children_.
Otherwise, _his_, _her_, _its_ are regularly expressed by the Genitive
Singular of is, viz. ejus; and _their_ by the Genitive Plural, eorum,
earum.
2. The Vocative Singular Masculine of meus is mi.
3. The enclitic -pte may be joined to the Ablative Singular of the
Possessive Pronouns for the purpose of emphasis. This is particularly
common in case of suo, sua; as, suopte, suapte.
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IV. DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS.
87. These point out an object as here or there, or as previously mentioned.
They are--
hic, _this_ (where I am);
iste, _that_ (where you are);
ille, _that_ (something distinct from the speaker);
is, _that_ (weaker than ille);
idem, _the same_.
Hic, iste, and ille are accordingly the Demonstratives of the First,
Second, and Third Persons respectively.
Hic, _this_.
SINGULAR PLURAL.
MASCULINE. FEMININE. NEUTER. MASCULINE. FEMININE. NEUTER.
_Nom._ hic haec hoc hi hae haec
_Gen._ hujus[23] hujus hujus horum harum
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