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Herbert Weir Smyth [n.d.], A Greek Grammar for Colleges; Machine readable text [info] [word count] [Smyth].

1200FIRST AND SECOND PERSONS PLURAL

1. Not reflexive (adjective our, your; pronoun ours, yours).

a. ἡμέτερος, ὑ_μέτερος: ὁ ἡμέτερος φίλος our friend (more common than ὁ φίλος ἡμῶν), ὁ ὑ_μέτερος φίλος your friend (more common than ὁ φίλος ὑ_μῶν), ζήτησιν ποιούμενοι ἢ ὑ_μῶν ἢ τῶν ὑ_μετέρων τινός making a search for you or for anything of yours L. 12.30.

2. Reflexive (our own, your own).

a. ἡμέτερος, ὑ_μέτερος (common): στέργομεν τὸν ἡμέτερον φίλον we love our own friend, στέργετε τὸν ὑ_μέτερον φίλον you love your own friend.

b. Usually the intensive αὐτῶν is used with ἡμέτερος, ὑ_μέτερος in agreement with ἡμῶν (ὑ_μῶν) implied in the possessive forms. This gives a stronger form of reflexive. Thus:

ἡμέτερος αὐτῶν, ὑ_μέτερος αὐτῶν: στέργομεν τὸν ἡμέτερον αὐτῶν φίλον we love our own friend, οἰκοδόμημα ἢ τῶν φίλων τινὶ ἢ ἡμέτερον αὐτῶν a house either for some one of our friends or our own P. G. 514b; στέργετε τὸν ὑ_μέτερον αὐτῶν φίλον you love your own friend, διδάσκετε τοὺς παῖδας τοὺς ὑ_μετέρους αὐτῶν teach your own children I. 3.57.

c. ἡμῶν, ὑ_μῶν (rare): αἰτιώμεθατοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν let us accuse our (own) fathers P. Lach. 179c.

d. ἡμῶν αὐτῶν, ὑ_μῶν αὐτῶν (very rare): δίκαιον ἡμᾶς . . . φαίνεσθαι μήτε ἡμῶν

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αὐτῶν τῆς δόξης ἐνδεεστέρους it is not right for us to show ourselves inferior to our own fame T. 2.11, τὰ τῶν ἵππων καὶ τὰ ὑ_μῶν αὐτῶν ὅπλα the equipments both of your horses and yourselves X. C. 6.3.21.

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Herbert Weir Smyth [n.d.], A Greek Grammar for Colleges; Machine readable text [info] [word count] [Smyth].