Person

§355INFLECTION: PRELIMINARY REMARKS (355-380)The Greek verb shows distinctions of voice, mood, verbal noun, tense, number, and person.

§364INFLECTION: PRELIMINARY REMARKS (355-380)Person.—There are three persons (first, second, and third) in the indicative, subjunctive, and optative. The imperative has only the second and third persons. a. Except in a few ca…

§925AGREEMENT: THE CONCORDSThere are three concords in simple sentences: 1. A finite verb agrees with its subject in number and person (949). 2. A word in apposition with another word agrees with it in case …

§§949–972CONCORD OF SUBJECT AND PREDICATEA finite verb agrees with its subject in number and person. Thus, τοῦτο τὸ ψήφισμα ἐγένετο this bill was passed L. 13.56, ὃ δέδοικ᾽ ἐγὼ μὴ πάθηθ᾽ ῡ̔μεῖς which I fear lest you may s…

§929OMISSION OF THE SUBJECTAn unemphatic pronoun of the first or second person is generally omitted: λέγε τὸν νόμον read the law (spoken to the clerk of the court) D. 21.8.

§930OMISSION OF THE SUBJECTAn emphatic pronoun is generally expressed, as in contrasts: σὺ μὲν κεῖνον ἐκδέχου, ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἄπειμι do thou wait for him, but I will depart S. Ph. 123. But often in poetry and someti…

§1190THE PERSONAL PRONOUNSThe nominative of the personal pronoun is usually omitted except when emphatic, e.g. in contrasts, whether expressed or implied: ἐπεὶ ῡ̔μεῖς ἐμοὶ οὐ θέλετε πείθεσθαι, ἐγω σὺν ῡ̔μῖν…

§1191THE PERSONAL PRONOUNSWhere there is no contrast the addition of the pronoun may strengthen the verb: εἰ μηδὲ τοῦτο βούλει ἀποκρῑ́νασθαι, σὺ δὲ τοὐντεῦθεν λέγε if you do not wish to reply even to this, …

§931OMISSION OF THE SUBJECTThe nominative subject of the third person may be omitted a. When it is expressed or implied in the context: ὁ σὸς πατὴρ φοβεῖται μὴ τὰ ἔσχατα πάθῃ your father is afraid lest he su…

§942CASE OF THE SUBJECT: THE NOMINATIVEIn referring to himself in letters a man may use his own name in the nominative, either in apposition to the first person contained in the verb (976), or as subject of a verb in th…

§1016PECULIARITIES IN THE USE OF PERSONτὶς or πᾶς may be used in the drama with the second person of the imperative: ἴτω τις, εἰσάγγελλε go, one of you, announce E. Bacch. 173.

§1017PECULIARITIES IN THE USE OF PERSONThe second person singular is used to designate an imaginary person, as in proverbs: ψῡχῆς ἐπιμελοῦ τῆς σεαυτοῦ care for thy own soul Men. Sent. 551, and in such phrases as εἶδες ἄ…

§1193THE PERSONAL PRONOUNSἐγώ, σύ (ἐμός, σός) are rarely used of an imaginary person (‘anybody’): D. 9.17, X. R. A. 1.11.

§1017 aPECULIARITIES IN THE USE OF PERSONThe second person singular is used to designate an imaginary person, as in proverbs: ψῡχῆς ἐπιμελοῦ τῆς σεαυτοῦ care for thy own soul Men. Sent. 551, and in such phrases as εἶδες ἄ…

§2501CONCORD OF RELATIVE PRONOUNSA relative pronoun agrees with its antecedent in gender, number, and person; its case is determined by the construction of the clause in which it stands. οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ ἀνὴρ δ̀ς ἦλθ…

§2502CONCORD OF RELATIVE PRONOUNSVariations from the law of agreement are, in general, the same as in the case of other pronouns (926). a. The construction according to sense (950, 1013) often occurs, as φίλον θάλ…

§2591 aINDIRECT DISCOURSE(II) Indirect Discourse (Oratio Obliqua). In an indirect quotation the words or thoughts are given at second hand with certain modifications to indicate that the words or thoughts …

§2598GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF INDIRECT DISCOURSE(I) After primary tenses, the original mood and tense are retained, except that the person of the verb may be changed.

§2606GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF INDIRECT DISCOURSEThe change from direct to indirect discourse is almost always a change of mood, not of tense. The time of a participle introducing indirect discourse is determined by that of the l…

§2677MOODS IN INDIRECT QUESTIONSThe moods and tenses of indirect questions follow the same rules as govern clauses in indirect discourse. The person may be changed. After primary tenses, the mood and tense of the…