Hi.
I want to know something about the usage of ipse.
Can ipse refer to a thing (not a person), as a demonstrative pronoun, not as an adjective attached to a noun ;
and even in oblique cases, or as the object of prepositions ?
I couldn't find such sample in Lewis & Short.
In it there were only a few samples of ipsum quod (meaning : for the reason that ... , in respect of ...)
about ipse
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Re: about ipse
Hi Qimmik. 
298. d. would be what you want me to see.
But in the samples, ipses are all referring to persons.
So I'm still unsure if ipse can be a pronoun of a thing. I can see examples like nunc ipsum in that page, though.
And there were no sample of the usage with prepositions.
So I'm unsure.
Tell me,
if the privious sentence had a word like ager,
can I use ipse and make such a sentence as nocte per ipsum ambulabam, ipsum referring to ager ?
298. d. would be what you want me to see.
But in the samples, ipses are all referring to persons.
So I'm still unsure if ipse can be a pronoun of a thing. I can see examples like nunc ipsum in that page, though.
And there were no sample of the usage with prepositions.
So I'm unsure.
Tell me,
if the privious sentence had a word like ager,
can I use ipse and make such a sentence as nocte per ipsum ambulabam, ipsum referring to ager ?