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:§ *28 pboxouxs. 71cerunt, " his fellow citizens banished him from the city." 4th. When thenoun with which suus agrees is coupled with another by cum ; as, emncum suis rebus dimiscrunt, "they dismissed him with his effects."2d. Ipse is applicable to any of the three persons, and, in the nominativecase, is used when either the primary or the subordinate subject is againintroduced withemphasis in a subsequent or subordinate clause, or in thenext sentence; as, Lycurgus nihil ulla lege in alios sanxit, cujus non ipseprimus in se documcnta ddret, "Lycurgus bound nothing by any law uponothers, of which he did not first give an instance in himself ;" here ipserefers to Lycurgus, the primary subject. In the following sentence, ipsirefers to the subordinate, and ipse to the principal subject: Ccesar adprcefectos— mittit qui nunciarent ne hostes prodio lacesserent ; et si ipsi(prosfecti) lacesserentur, sustinerent quoad ipse [Ccesar) accessisset.B. G. IV, 11.Caesar,In the oblique cases, ipse hardly ever refers to the main subject (thisbeing the proper office of sui), but to the subordinate, when that is to beexpressed with emphasis, and distinguished from the primary or anyother subject previously expressed; as, Senatus dixit non sua negligentiased ipsius {Pompeji) subito adventu factum, " The senate said that it happened not through any negligence on their part, but owing to his (Pompey's) sudden arrival." Instances, however, occur in which the obliquecases refer to the principal subject ; but these are rare, and such as tocreate no ambiguity.Note.—When joined with the personal pronouns ego, tu,