[872] ἴομεν … ἐπὶ σφέα: 'Let us each return again unto our own.' The Schol. condemns thisuse of σφέα = ἡμέτερα. In 849 it is used in its proper sense = σφέτερα (L. and S. wrongly 'your'). Probably like σφέτερος it was used as a poss. adj. of the general reflexive 'self' without distinction of persons. Aleman uses it for the sing. pronouns. Virgil's suus in 'quisque suos patimur manes' is parallel to σφεα here.
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Argonautica. Apollonius Rhodius. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912.
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