Chapter 295Allen and Greenough's Latin GrammarDickinson CollegeChristopher Francese
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The Personal Pronouns have, in general, the same constructions as nouns.
The personal pronouns are not expressed as subjects, except for distinction or emphasis:—
tē vocō
,
I call you.
But,—
quis mē vocat
?
ego
tē vocō
,
who is calling me? I
(emphatic)
am calling you.
The personal pronouns have two forms for the genitive plural, that in
-um
being used
partitively
(§
346
), and that in
-ī
oftenest
objectively
(§
348
):—
mâior vestrum
,
the elder of you.
habētis ducem memorem
vestrī
, oblītum suī
;
(
Cat. 4.19
),
you have a leader who thinks
(is mindful)
of you and forgets
(is forgetful of)
himself.pars nostrum
,
a part
(i.e. some)
of us.
The genitives
nostrum
,
vestrum
, are occasionally used objectively (§
348
): as,—
cupidus vestrum(Verr. 3.224)
,
fond of you;cūstōs vestrum(Cat. 3.29)
,
the guardian of you
(your guardian).
“One of themselves” is expressed by
ūnus ex suīs
or
ipsīs
(rarely
ex sē
), or
ūnus suōrum
.
The Latin has no personal pronouns of the third person except the reflexive
sē
. The want is supplied by a Demonstrative or Relative (§§
296
. 2, 308.
f
)