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—:74 DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS. 31sense,referring to the main subject of the sentence, and must De renderedinto English in the gender and number of that subject, withont regard tothe noun with which it stands ; thus, sua?n rem familiarem perdiderunt,kithey squandered their property ;" here suam, though singular, to agreewith rem, must be rendered " their," because it refers to the plural subjectof perdiderunt.Ilia suosfratres dilexit, " she loved her brothers."When the reference is not to the main subject, but to some other personor thing, the possessive is expressed in Latin, not by suus, but by thegenitives of ille, ipse, iste, is, and hie ; thus, ejus rem familiarem rapuerunt y" they plundered his property." Suos amicos amat, means " he loves hipown friends ;" ejus amicos amat, is " he loves his friends," meaning (not hisown, but) the friends of some other person to whom ejus refers.Obs. 4. The ablative singular of the possessive pronouns, especially suoand sua, frequently take the suffix pte, equivalent to the English wordown; as, suapte mtinu, u with his own hand ;" and, in the same sense, allthe cases of suus take the suffix met, usually followeii^v ipse ; as, Hannibal,suamet ipse fraude captus, abiit, "Hannibal, being foiled by his owndevice, departed."§ 31. II. DEMONSTRATIVE PEONOUNS.122. Demois t steatiye Pkojtoujsts are such aspoint out with precision a person or thing alreadyknown.They are hie, this ; ille, iste, is, that. They are d eclined afollows1. Hie, H^EC, HOC, this; Plural, these.Singular.Plural.Masc. Fern. Neut. Masc Fern. NeutN. hie, haee, hoc, N. hi, fiae, haee,G. hujus, hujus, hujus, G. horum, harum, horum,D. huie, huie huie, D. his, his, his,Ac. hunc, hanc, hoc Ac. hos, has, ha)c,V. hie, haee, hoc, V. hi, has, hsec,A b. hoc, hac, hoc, Ab. his, his, his.Note.—Some suppose that the original form of this pronoun was like, haee,hoce, some cases of which still remain ;that the present form was attained bydropping final e, and that this, and not niece, hcecce, &c, is the proper emphaticform of the word. It is certain, however, that most writers and(trammarians prefer the double c }as hicce, Ac. See Obs. 3.