I.gen. sing. tis, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 42; id. Trin. 2, 2, 62; id. Bacch. 5, 2, 87; id. Ps. 1, 1, 6; acc. ted, id. As. 2, 2, 33 et saep.; gen. plur. vestrorum or vostrorum, Pac. ap. Non. 85, 5; Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 123; fem. vostrarum, Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 6; v. ego init.), pers. pron. [Sanscr. tva, tvam; Gr. σύ; Dor. τύ; Goth. thu; Germ. du; Engl. thou, etc.], thou.
I. In gen.: nec pol homo quisquam faciet impune animatus Hoc nisi tu, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 101 Vahl.); imitated by Verg. A. 9, 422: unus erit quem tu tolles in caerula caeli Templa, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 6 Müll. (Ann. v. 66 Vahl.): “tu mihi etiam legis Portiae, tu C. Gracchi, tu horum libertatis, tu cujusquam denique hominis popularis mentionem facis,” Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13: “nec dulces amores Sperne puer, neque tu choreas,” Hor. C. 1, 9, 16: “ego tu sum, tu es ego: uni animi sumus,” Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 49: “mei te rogandi et tui respondendi mihi (labor),” id. Ps. 1, 1, 4.—Fem.: “cum tui videndi est copia,” Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 19: “neque mei neque te tui intus puditum est,” id. Bacch. 3, 1, 12; cf. id. ib. 3, 1, 19: “quia tis egeat, quia te careat,” id. Mil. 4, 2, 42: “tibi aras. tibi occas, tibi seris, tibi eidem metis,” id. Merc. 1, 1, 71: “quot pondo ted esse censes nudum?” id. As. 2, 2, 33 et saep.: vosne velit an me regnare era, Fors, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 38 (Ann. v. 203 Vahl.): “si quis quid vostrum Epidamnum curari sibi Velit,” Plaut. Men. prol. 51: “vestri adhortandi causā,” Liv. 21, 41, 1: “istanc tecum conspicio simul,” Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 112: “stulta multum, quae vobiscum fabuler,” id. Mil. 2, 5, 33.—
2. Emphatic.
(α).
Jam tibi cerebrum Dispercutiam, excetra tu, Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 24 sq.: “neque postulem abs te, ni ipsa res moneat,” Ter. And. 3, 3, 19: “nec enim illa studia deserui, quibus etiam te incendi,” Cic. Fat. 2, 3: “tu si hic sis aliter sentias,” Ter. And. 2, 1, 10.—
(β).
Esp. in opp. to another pron. pers.: “id mihi da negoti: tu tamen Perge, etc.,” Ter. And. 3, 2, 41: “an mihi potest quicquam esse molestum quod tibi gratum futurum sit?” Cic. Fat. 2, 4: “nos patriam fugimus... tu, Tityre, lentus, etc.,” Verg. E. 1, 4; Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 6.—
(γ).
Poet., in second clause of a command, etc.: “solve metus, et tu Trojanos exue caestus,” Verg. A. 5, 420; cf. id. ib. 5, 691; 6, 365; Hor. C. 1, 9, 16.—
B. With an emphatic -te or -met suffixed (only in the forms tute or tutemet, tibimet, tete, vosmet, and vobismet): o Tite, tute, Tati, tibi tanta, tyranne, tulisti, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 947 P. (Ann. v. 113 Vahl.): bene mones: tute ipse cunctas, id. ap. Non. 469, 25 (Com. v. 3 Vahl. p. 153): Al. Quae ex te audivi: ut urbem maximam Expugnavisses regemque Pterelam tute occideris. Am. Egone istuc dixi? Al. Tute istic, etiam astante hoc Sosia, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 114 sq.: “tute ipse his rebus finem praescripsisti, pater,” Ter. And. 1, 1, 124: “utere igitur argumento, Laeli, tute ipse sensus tui,” Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 59: “tute,” id. Div. in Caecil. 8, 27; 10, 31: “ut tute mihi praecepisti,” id. Fam. 1, 8, 2: “tute scis—si modo meministi—me tibi tum dixisse, etc.,” id. Att. 12, 18, a, 2.—Acc.: “uxor, si cesses, aut te amare cogitat Aut tete amari,” Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 8; so, “tete,” id. Phorm. 3, 1, 3: “tibi si recta probanti placebis, tum non modo tete viceris, etc.,” Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 63: “nisi quid tibi in tete auxilii est, absumptus es,” Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 76: “tutemet mirabere,” Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 133: “tutemet in culpā cum sis,” Lucr. 4, 915: “tutemet a nobis ... quaeres,” id. 1, 102: “tibimet ipse supplicia irroga,” Sen. Hippol. 1222: “ita vosmet aiebatis,” Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 18: “atque hoc vosmet ipsi, scio ... haud aliter id dicetis,” id. Most. 1, 2, 13: vos quoque in eā re consilio me adjuvate: “nullum libentius sequor quam quod vosmet ipsi attuleritis,” Liv. 34, 17, 9; 3, 56, 3 Drak. N. cr.—
II. In partic.
A. Tibi, as a dativus ethicus (cf. Ruddim. II. p. 126, n. 44): “alter tibi descendit de palatio et aedibus suis,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 133: “ecce tibi exortus est Isocrates,” id. de Or. 2, 22, 94; so, “ecce tibi,” id. Sest. 41, 89; id. Att. 2, 15, 3: “hic Marius veniet tibi origine parva,” Sil. 13, 854: “haec vobis ipsorum per biduum militia fuit,” Liv. 22, 60 et saep.—
B. Vos, addressed to one person as a representative of more than one, or with a collective noun in the sing.: “vos, vero, Attice, et praesentem me curā levatis, et, etc.,” Cic. Brut. 3, 11: “sed quid hoc loco vos inter vos, Catule?” id. de Or. 2, 73, 295; id. Dom. 31, 83: “vos, Romanus exercitus, ne destiteritis impio bello?” Liv. 7, 40, 12 Drak.: “vos, Gaetulia sueta, etc.,” Sil. 3, 287: “vos, o Calliope, precor aspirate canenti,” i. e. you, Muses, Verg. A. 9, 525; imitated by Sil. 12, 390.—
C. Gen. plur. for poss. pron.: “majores vostrum,” Sall. C. 33, 3: “hac vestrum frequentiā,” Cic. Agr. 2, 21, 55; id. Phil. 4, 1, 1: “quantus consensus vestrum,” id. ib. 5, 1, 2: “contra urbis salutem omniumque vestrum,” id. Cat. 2, 12, 27.—
D. Mea tu, my love, my dear, my darling, in familiar language, Ter. Eun. 4, 3, 22.
