A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...the article with avr6s, see 679, 680. 675, The Possessive pronouns take the article, only when a particular object is referred to: e/xos /i'Aos a friend of mine, 6 ifwi £i'Aos my friend (the particular one). 676, An Interrogative pronoun may take the article, when it relates to an object before mentioned: ndcx' & 6aunaar6v To ri; A. A queer thing ix happening to him. B. (The what) What is it? (ArPax 696).--So even a personal pronoun: Scvpo J)) d6v fnim irapa rlvas robs vptas; A. Come hither straight to us. B. (To the you being whom) Who are you, that I must come to? (PLys.203). PRONOUNS. 677. The Personal Pronouns, when they stand in the nominative, are emphatic: Ko.1 tv ofei airov thou also wilt see him. When there would be no emphasis on them, they are omitted (602 a). a. The pronoun of, oi, etc., of the third person, is in Attic always reflexive (685); instead of it, the oblique cases of airos are used as a personal pronoun (682). Intensive Pronoun. 678. The intensive pronoun airSs has three meanings, (1) same, (2) self, (3) him, her, it. 679. With preceding article (attributive position, 666 a) avros means the same, Lat. idem: 6 aurds avrjp the same man. a. In Homer, aura's without the article may mean the same: %pxf & rV Outv iBbv fjmrtp of &AA01 and he led him the same way that the others had gone (e 107). b. In the plural, fipav avrHv, etc., may be either reflexive or emphatic; aiiTaiv ripuv, etc., emphatic only: but tycn aatnttv is only reflexive, and carrwp rpa$ is never used. c. But in Ilm., to whom the compound reflexives are unknown (266 D), such forms as I abr6v, of aury, ral avrip, etc., are sometimes reflexive and sometimes emphatic. 688. The reflexive pronoun may be made to receive emphasis by prefixing to...