Chapter 144Allen and Greenough's Latin GrammarDickinson CollegeChristopher Francese
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Reflexive Pronouns are used in the Oblique Cases to refer to the subject of the sentence or clause in which they stand (see §
299
): as,
sē amat
,
he loves himself.
In the
first
and
second
persons the oblique cases of the Personal pronouns are used as Reflexives: as,
mē videō
,
I see myself;tē laudās
,
you praise yourself;nōbīs persuādēmus
,
we persuade ourselves.
The Reflexive pronoun of the
third
person has a special form used only in this sense, the same for both singular and plural. It is thus declined:—
GEN.
suī
,
of himself, herself
,
itself
,
themselves
DAT.
sibi
,
to himself, herself
,
itself
,
themselves
ACC.
sē
(
sēsē
),
himself
,
herself
,
itself
,
themselves
ABL.
sē
(
sēsē
), [
by
]
himself
,
herself
,
itself
,
themselves
Emphatic and reduplicated forms of
sē
are made as in the personals (see §
143
.
d
,
e
). The preposition
cum
is added enclitically: as,
sēcum
,
with himself.
etc.
An old form
sēd
occurs in the accusative and ablative.