Intensive/Reflexive

blutoonwithcarrotand · September 5, 2008, 4:15pm

I think i have this right:

Intensive (IPSE)

We ourselves will sail accross the sea

Reflexive (ME)

I gave it to myself

Because: In the intensive you are sailing accross the sea - not yourself.
It does not matter if ‘We’ and ‘Ourselves’ overlap. And in the relexive
in the second sentence you did it to yourself and nothing is
complicating it.

Thanks.

adrianus · September 7, 2008, 12:32pm

I myself think so, blutoonwithcarrotandnail.
Ego ipse, canorcaerulecarotÃ¢clavoque, item puto.
Nota benÃ¨ quoque: “I gave it to myself” “Id mihi dedi”
“Morti me obtuli” “I have exposed myself to death” (Allen & Greenough, Â§299a)
“te perfer” “take (bear) yourself hence” (Allen & Greenough, Â§299a)

http://fce.ufm.edu/catedraticos/mpolanco/latin/AllenGreenough.pdf or http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0001