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The use of the first person plural for the first person singular is due to modesty, which readily becomes affectation. The particular is sunk in the generic, the individual in the class, the woman in her male kindred. It occurs less frequently in Greek than in the more rhetorical Latin.
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Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve [1900], Syntax of Classical Greek [info] [word count] [Gildersleeve].
