THE POSSESSIVE PRONOUN.

2346. The possessive of the personal and reflexive pronoun is regularly

omitted, unless it is required for emphasis or contrast: as,

#ōra manūsque tuā lavimus, Fērōnia, lymphā#, H. S. 1, 5, 24, _our hands

and faces in thy rill, Feronia, we bathe_. The possessive sometimes has

the meaning of _proper_, _appropriate_, _favourable_; as, #suō locō

dīcam#, Quintil. 1, 1, 36, _I shall tell in the proper place_. For the

possessive pronoun used instead of the possessive or objective genitive,

see 1234, 1262.

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