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LEM.-The remaining parts of the indicative and subjunctive moods, lo verbs in ið, are entirely regular.

272. It has been stated (255) that pronouns are divided into two classes, viz., Substantive Pronouns and Adjective Pronouns.

273. Adjective pronouns are so called, because they are sometimes used as pronouns to supply the place of nouns, and sometimes as adjectives to qualify nouns. These are divided into several classes.

274. Demonstrative Pronouns, so called because they point out or specify the objects to which they refer, are hic, ille, istě, is, and their compounds, and are declined as follows:

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Istě, that, is declined like ille. It usually refers to objects which are present to the person addressed, and sometimes expresses contempt.

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G. Ejusdem, ejusdem, ejusdem. Eōrundem,earundem,eorundĕm.

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Postěră, ŭm (mas. not used), next, following.

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(a) 1. Postero die castra ex eo loco movent. 2. Idem facit Caesar. 3. Idem faciebant. 4. Ego vero istud non postulo. 5. Veni ut legěrem. 6. Haec promisistis. 7. Eōdem die castra promōvit.

8. Hi primi (205) cum gladiis impetum fecerunt. 9. Illi imperāta celeriter fecerunt. 10. Ibi me non

occidisti. 11. Eum ab se dimittit.

12. Venisti ut eum videres. 13. Hunc capitis damnabunt. 14. Illos proditionis invīti accusaverātis.

(b) 1. I will give you this book. 2. We prize these beautiful books very highly. 3. They will think little of those beautiful books. 4. You have condemned this man to death. 5. I will entreat him not to do

(that he may not do) this.

6. I have unwillingly condemned him to death. 7. We will not accuse you of treachery. 8. You have accused him of bribery. 9. We entreated him not to accuse his son. 10. We did not make the attack. 11. They asked us to make an attack.

LESSON XLIX.

Indicative and Subjunctive Moods, continued.—Intensive Pronoun.

277. THE Intensive Pronoun, ipse, himself, is so called because it is used to render an object emphatic;

it is also called an adjunctive pronoun, because it is usually joined to a noun, or to some other pronoun; as, Romulus ipse, Romulus himself; tu ipse, you yourself.

278. Ipse, when joined to a noun or pronoun, may sometimes be translated by very; as, hoc ipsum, this very thing.

279. Ipse is declined as follows:

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REM. The substantive pronouns are rendered intensive by annexing the syllable mět; as, ĕgomět, I myself. In the substantive pronoun of the third person, sēsē is used intensively in the accusative and ablative of both numbers.

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(a) 1. Ipse fuga mortem vitaverat. 2. Ipse ad castra hostium accessit. 3. Ipsi usque ad castra hostium

accessĕrant. 4. Caius sese occultabat.

5. Servi nostri

sese occultabunt. 6. Ipse dixit. 7. Hoc ipsum justum est. 8. At te eadem tua fortuna servavit. 9. Caesar haec promisit. 10. Ad haec legāti responderunt.

(b) 1. He himself accused the son of the king. 2. We shall accuse the king himself. 3. You yourself gave me this book. 4. They will read this very (ipse) book. 5. We ourselves will go to see the queen. They have gone to see the queen herself.

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7. You promised this. 8. We will ourselves do the 9. You have said nothing of (de) the nature of

same. the war. 10. We shall say nothing of the war itself. 11. They had come to condemn me to death.

LESSON L.

Indicative and Subjunctive Moods, continued.— Relative and Interrogative Pronouns.

282. THE Relative Pronoun, qui, who, is so called, because it always relates to some noun or pronoun, expressed or understood, called its antecedent. It is declined as follows:

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