A.of thyself, etc., in masc. and fem. of gen., dat., and acc. sg., first in Alc.87, Pi.Fr.97, Hdt.1.45,108; ἐν σαυτοῦ (v.l. -ῷ） γενοῦ contain thyself, S.Ph.950: rarely in neut., “φίλον ξύλον, ἔγειρέ μοι σεαυτὸ καὶ γίγνου θρασύ” E.Fr.693:—the Trag. use the longer form (but not so freq. as the shorter), S.Ant.547, OT312, etc.:—in pl. always separated, ὑμῶν αὐτῶν, etc.: and orig. separated in sg., as in Hom., who always has σοὶ αὐτῷ, σ᾽ αὐτόν; and so τὰ σ᾽ αὐτοῦ, τὰ σ᾽ αὐτῆς for τὰ σά αὐτοῦ, etc., v. σός 1.3.—The separated forms, σοῦ αὐτοῦ, αὐτοῦ σοῦ, etc., were used in Att., not as reflexive, but as emphat. personal pronouns, cf. Pl.Grg.472b, A.Th.632.
σεαυτοῦ , -ῆς, also σαυτοῦ , -ῆς, Ion. σεωυτοῦ , ῆς, reflexive Pron. of 2nd pers.,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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