POSITION OF THE GENITIVE OF PRONOUNS AND THE ARTICLE
[*] 1184. In the attributive position (
1154) stands the genitive of the demonstrative, reflexive, and reciprocal pronouns.
τὸ τούτου βιβλίον or
τὸ βιβλίον τὸ τούτου his book,
τὸ ἐμαυτοῦ βιβλίον or
τὸ βιβλίον τὸ ἐμαυτοῦ my own book; ““
μετεπέμψατο τὴν ἑαυτοῦ θυγατέρα καὶ τὸν παῖδα αὐτῆς”
he sent for his daughter and her child”
X. C. 1.3.1.
a. The type
τὸ βιβλίον τούτου is rare and suspected except when another attributive is added:
τῇ νῦν ὕβρει τούτου D. 4.3. The types
τὸ βιβλίον ἐμαυτοῦ (
Hdt. 6.23) and
τὸ αὐτοῦ βιβλίον (
T. 6.102) are rare.
[*] 1185. In the predicate position stands
a. The genitive of the personal pronouns (whether partitive or not):
τὸ βιβλίον μου (
σου, αὐτοῦ, etc.), or
μου σου, αὐτοῦ. etc.)
τὸ βιβλίον when other words precede, as ““
ὃς ἔχει σου τὴν ὰδελοην”
who has your sister to wife”
And. 1.50.
b. The genitive of the other pronouns used partitively.
N. 1.—Homer does not use the article in the above cases, and often employs the orthotone forms (““
σεῖο μέγα κλέος”
thy great fame”
π 241). Even in Attic
ἐμοῦ for
μου occurs (““
ἐμοῦ τὰ φορτία”
my wares”
Ar. Vesp. 1398).
N. 2.—The differences of position between 1184 and 1185 may be thus illustrated:
