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 260. $ 259--260. „Lord". Like Spanish Usted, Italian Ella,, though being exponent of the second person, does agree with the 3ª person of the verb, therefore (H), when addressing oue, fi haf Hard: (ªdru¡), when addressing more ¹). Rem. Both modes of expressing the 2d person, either by the pronoun a or by the title at may be used promiscuously. It is very common to see them used alternately. Panc. 73 Damanaka says to the lion : asi Harmienzand aq ((the bull] Sanj. is an herbivorous animal, but you [a] and your [aa] subjects feed on flesh); Kathâs. 30, 17 ] T fan! Paz.... t da.... (make her your wife by the Gândbar- va-rite, in this way she will become yours). In the first book of the Hitopadeça (p. 35 of B. K. Vidyâratna's ed.) the sly cat thus addresses the blind vulture gorrifavarenza sta afar vagt faraniasut ut infigwa: [64], ee 24. H By pointing out as the proper term for addressing in a po- lite manuer, it is by no means said it is the sole, Many other titles, such as signify sir, lord, reverend, master are used ac- cording to duty, custom, dignity, age. So holy men are duly addressed by and, f. unaat, kings by a, respectable mer chants and the like by, matrons by taf, the wife duly ad- dresses her husband by ga, the charioteor his prince by etc. As a rule a greater respect is shown by such titles than by using the general term (vocat. :). Another difference is this: they may as well denote the 3d person as the 2d, whereas Halld is only fit for denoting the 2d person. Moreover there are some general terms, made up of pre- 196 a na I as to the plural q, ← 1) Instances of a construed with the 2à person of the verb are extremely rare and the idiom undoubtedly vicious. So Çankh. Grby. 2, 2,8 gant Hagfe, instead of aan oraeay, you are a brahmacárin."