[(C.) PRONOUNS.]
[The Personal Pronoun.]
[2335.] For the use of the nominatives ego tū, nōs vōs, see [1029]. The genitive plurals nostrū̆m and vestrū̆m are used as partitive, nostrī and vestrī as objective genitives: as,
nēmō nostrūm, RA. 55, not one of us ([1242]). ab utrīsque vestrūm, Fam. 11, 21, 5, by each of you ([1243]). grāta mihī̆ vehementer est memoria nostrī tua, Fam. 12, 17, 1, your remembrance of me is exceedingly agreeable to me ([1260]). nostrī nōsmet paenitet, T. Ph. 172, we’re discontented with our lot ([1283]). For the adjective instead of the possessive or objective genitive, see [1234], [1262].
[The Reflexive sē and suus.]
[2336.] The reflexive regularly refers to the subject of the verb: as,
fugae sēsē mandābant, 2, 24, 2, they betook themselves to flight. animō servit, nōn sibī, Pl. Tri. 308, he serves his passions, not his better self. est amāns suī virtūs, L. 98, virtue is fond of itself. dūcit sēcum ūnā virginem, T. Eu. 229, he is leading a girl along with him. Caesar cōpiās suās dīvīsit, Caes. C. 3, 97, 3, Caesar divided his forces. For sē ipse, see [2376]; for sē or suus quisque, 2397.
[2337.] The reflexive sometimes refers to a word not the subject, when that word is specially emphasized or easily made out from the context. This holds chiefly of suus, which is used with great freedom: as,
Alexandrum uxor sua occīdit, Inv. 2, 144, Alexander was murdered by his own wife. dēsinant īnsidiārī domī suae cōnsulī, C. 1, 32, let them cease to waylay the consul in his own house and home. suās rēs Syrācūsānīs restituit, L. 29, 1, 17, he restored their property to the Syracuse people.
[2338.] In the construction of the accusative with the infinitive ([2175]), the reflexive is regularly used when the subject of the infinitive refers to the subject of the verb: as,