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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. * * * * * 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. * * * * * 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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