itive cases of their primitives ego, tu, &c.) are used when
a person is signified, as

Languet desiderio tui:

He languishes for want of you.

You cannot give a more acceptable piece of information than the above,
to any young lady. The fairer and more amiable sex always like to have
something-- if not to love, at least to pity.

Parsque tui lateat corpore clausa meo. --_Eton Gram._

And a part of you may lie shut up in my body.

Or rather _may_ it so lie! How forcibly a sucking pig hanging up outside
a pork-butcher's shop always recals this beautiful line of Ovid's to the
mind!

Meus, mine, tuus, thine, suus, his own (Cocknice his'n), noster, ours,
vester, yours, are used when action, or the possession of a thing is
signified; as

Qui bona quae non sunt sua furtim subripit, ille
Tempore quo capitur, carcere clausus erit:

Him as prigs wot isn 't his'n,
Ven he's cotch'd 'll go to pris'n.

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These possessive pronouns, meus, tuus, suus, noster, and vester, take
after them these genitive cases,-- ipsius, of himself, solius, of him
alone, unius, of one, duorum, of two, trium, of three, &c., omnium, of
all, plurium, of more, paucorum, of few, cujusque, of every one, and
also the genitive cases of participles, which are referred to the
primitive word understood; as

Meis unius impensis pocula sex exhausi:

I drank six pots to my own cheek.

We wonder that any one should have the _face_ to say so.

Sui and suus are reciprocal pronouns, that is, they have always relation
to that which went before, and was most to be noted in the sentence,
as--

Jonathanus nimium admiratur se:

Jonathan admires himself too much.

Parcit erroribus suis, He spares his own errors.

Magnopere Jonathanus rogat ne se derideas, Jonathan earnestly begs
that you would not laugh at him.

If you _do_, take care that he does not _blow you up_ one of these fine
days.

These demonstrative pronouns, hic, iste, and ille are thus
distinguished: hic points out the nearest to me; iste him who is by you;
ille him who is at a distance from both of us.

In making _game_ of the Syntax, we regard them as _pointers_.

When hic and ille are referred to two things or persons going before,
hic generally relates to the latter, ille to the former, as

Richardus Thomasque suum de more bibebant,
Ebrius hic vappis, ebrius ille mero:

Both Dick and Tom caroused away like swine,
Tom dr