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126 THE PRONOUNS IPSE AND IDEM ignis eās cremābit.” Tum pater et filius iter difficile incipiunt. Ālās movent et aurae sēsē committunt. Sed stultus puer verbīs patris nōn pāret. Sōlī adpropinquat. Ālae cremantur et Īcarus in mare dēcidit et vitam āmittit. Daedalus autem sine ūllō perīculō trāns fluctūs ad īnsulam Siciliam volāvit. LESSON L THE INTENSIVE PRONOUN IPSE AND THE DEMONSTRATIVE ĪDEM 285. Ipse means -self (him-self, her-self, etc.) or is translated by even or very. It is used to emphasize a noun or pronoun, expressed or understood, with which it agrees like an adjective.
 * a. Ipse must be carefully distinguished from the reflexive suī. The latter is always used as a pronoun, while ipse is regularly adjective. Compare
 * Homo se videt, the man sees himself (reflexive)
 * Homo ipse periculum videt, the man himself (intensive) sees the danger
 * Homo ipsum periculum videt, the man sees the danger itself (intensive)

286. Except for the one form ipse, the intensive pronoun is declined exactly like the nine irregular adjectives (cf. §§ io8, 109). Learn the declension (§ 481).

287. The demonstrative īdem, meaning the same, is a compound of is. It is declined as follows:


 * a. From forms like eundem (eum + -dem), eorundem (eonim + -dem),

we learn the rule that m before d is changed to n.
 * b. The forms iidem, iisdem are often spelled and pronounced with one i.