[*] 39. Possessive pronoun or possessive genitive with adjectives and participles used substantively. Unless an adjective or participle is fully substantivized it does not take a possessive pronoun, and seldom the possessive genitive in attributive position. “τὰ τοῦ δήμου συμφέροντα,” DIN.1.107 ; The commons' interests. “τὸν ὁμώνυμον τὸν ἐμαυτοῦ,” DEM. 3.21 ; That namesake of mine. “τῷ σῷ ὁμωνύμῳ,” PLATO, Theaet. 147D ; Your namesake. DIN.1.107(see above). DEM.3.21(see above). 18.47: “τὸ τοῦ προδιδόντος συμφέρον” . 18.138: “τὸ τῆς πόλεως συμφέρον”. 18.139: “τὸ τῶν ἐχθρῶν συμφέρον”, but ibid.: “περὶ τῶν συμφερόντων τῇ πόλει”. 37.1: “τοῦ δικαίου τούτου”. [56]DEM., 28: “μετὰ τοῦ συμφέροντος τοῦ τῶν δανειστῶν”. AESCHIN.3.80: “τοῦ ὑμετέρου συμφέροντος”. ISOC.5.24: “τοῖς ἐπιτηδείοις τοῖς ἐμοῖς”. LYS. [2] 71: “τοὺς προσήκοντας αὐτῶν ἐλεεῖν” , but LYS. [2], 76: “τοὺς τούτοις προσήκοντας” , and 12.72: “τὰ τῇ πόλει συμφέροντα” . 12.79: “παρὰ . . . τῶν τουτουῒ συναρχόντων” . 12.87: “τοὺς συνάρχοντας αὐτοῦ” . AND.2.9: “τῷ ἐμῷ αἰσχρῷ”. ANT. 5.7: “τῷ ὑμετέρῳ δικαίῳ” . 5.18: “τοῖς ἐμοῖς προσήκουσιν” , but 5.59: “τῶν ἐμοὶ προσηκόντων” . 5.59: “τῶν ἐκείνου ἀναγκαίων” . PLATO, Apol. 34B: “οἱ τούτων προσήκοντες”. Cf. Legg. 868 B: “τῶν προσηκόντων τῷ τελευτήσαντι”, but just below: “τοὺς προσήκοντας τοῦ τελευτήσαντος”. Cf. ibid. 868 C: “τοῖς προσήκουσι τοῦ τελευτήσαντος”, and ibid. 947 C: “οἱ προσήκοντες τοῦ τελευτήσαντος”. Phaedr. 240 A: “τὸ αὑτοῦ γλυκύ”. Rpb. 338 C: “τὸ τοῦ κρείττονος . . . ξυμφέρον”, and similarly often. Theaet. 147 D (see above). XEN. Apol. 27: “τοῖς ἐμοῖς εὔνοις” . Hell. 5.2.33: “τοῖς . . . ὑμετέροις δυσμενέσι” . THUC.2.61.2: “ἐν τῷ ὑμετέρῳ ἀσθενεῖ τῆς γνώμης”. 5.46.1: “ἐν μὲν τῷ σφετέρῳ καλῷ, ἐν δὲ τῷ ἐκείνων ἀπρεπεῖ” . 6.11.6: “τὸ σφέτερον ἀπρεπές” . HDT.3.65: “ὑπὸ τῶν ἑωυτοῦ οἰκηιοτάτων”. AR. Eq. 845: “ἁπαξάπαντας τοὺς ἐμοὺς ἐχθροὺς ἐπιστομίζειν” . Pl. 631: “ὦ βέλτιστε τῶν σαυτοῦ φίλων” . EUR. Alc. 167: “ὥσπερ αὐτῶν ἡ τεκοῦσ᾽ ἀπόλλυμαι”. El. 335: “ὅ τ᾽ ἐκείνου τεκών”. Hipp. 1007: “τὸ σῶφρον τοὐμόν”. I. A. 1270: “οὐδ᾽ ἐπὶ τὸ κείνου βουλόμενον ἐλήλυθα”. On the use of a Neuter Adjective as the Predicate of a Masculine or Feminine Subject, see under Concord, 126.
Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. New York. American Book Company. 1900.
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