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ATTO5 REFLEXIVE PRONOUN. 219
(2) To express without change, the same as before;
II. 12. 225 ^ KO(TjU6) Trapa vav(j)iv eAewojuefl* avra KeAevfla.
Od. 8. 107 ^ ??px e r( ? .
The unemphatic use, as it
may be called,
(3)
in which it is an
rding linary Anaphoric Pronoun of the Third Person (Eng. he, she,
In this
it).
use the Pronoun cannot stand at the beginning of
a Clause (the emphatic position),
or in the Nominative an
unemphasised Subject being sufficiently expressed by the Person-
Ending of the Verb. The use is derived from that of the
emphatic auros in the same way that in old-fashioned English
the same ' often denotes merely the person or thing just mentioned
'
: and as in German derselbe and der ndmliche are used
without any emphasis on the idea of
sameness.
(4) The Reflexive use of avros is very rare Od. : 4. 247 aAAw 6'
avrov (/>6orl KaraKpvirr^v ryi'o-Ke,
and perhaps
II. 20. 55 %v ouroij
6s
epia ptfyvvvTo ftapelav (among them there, in heaven itself).
II. 9. 342 rrjv avrov