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——214 SYNTAX.—RELATIVE. § 99strati ve pronoun in the clause following ; as, de qua re audlvi, e a m tibinarrabo. In the clause preceding the relative, the demonstrative hassometimes the force of talis, " such ;" and the relative, that of the correspondingqudlis, " as ;" —the two implying a sort of comparison as, Itdque;.ego i s sum in ilium, que m tu me esse vis, " Therefore, I am towards him,such as you wish me to be.'" Cic.To this construction may be referred such expressions as, qui iuus estamor, equivalent to, pro eo amore qui tuus est amor, " such is your love,"literally, " in accordance with such love as yours is ;" —quae tua est benevolentia," such is your benevolence," where the demonstrative is, ea, id,in the sense of "such," (123-2, b), is supplied with the antecedent understood.287. Obs. 2. a. The antecedent is sometimes implied in a precedingword ; as, omnes laudare fortunas me as qu i haberem, &c, " all werepraising my fortune who had," &c, i.e. fortunas mei qui; the possessivemean being equivalent to the genitive of ego. 121, Obs. 1. Concuraverepanel contra rempublicam, de qua (scil. conjuratioue, implied in conjuravere)quam brevissime polero cllcam, " a few entered into a conspiracyagainst the republic, concerning which," &c.b. The relative sometimes refers, not to a particular word, but to the wholeantecedent proposition, or the idea expressed by it, in which case it takesthe neuter gender ; as, Tu dmas virtutem, quod (i. e. quam rem) valde laudo.PostremQj quod difficillvmum inter mortales, gloria invidiam vicisti. Sall.,Jug. Sometimes id is placed before quod referring to the same proposition;as, Slve, id quod constat, Ptaionis studiosus audiendi fuit. Cic.288.— Obs. 3. When a relative refers to one or two nouns, denotingthe same object, but of different genders, it may agree with either ; as,Flumen est Arar quod,