#is.#
2365. #is# refers to something named in the context. When some feeling
is to be expressed, such as admiration, or oftener contempt, #homō# is
often put for #is#.
(_a._) #petit ā rēge et eum plūribus verbīs rogat ut id ad sē mittat#,
_V._ 4, 64, _he solicits the king and begs him at considerable length to
send it to him_. #nōndum mātūrus imperiō Ascanius erat, tamen id
imperium ĕ̄ī ad pūberem aetātem incolume mānsit#, L. 1, 3, 1, _Ascanius
was not yet old enough for the throne, but that throne was kept safe for
him till he came of age_. (_b._) #ego hominem callidiōrem vīdī nēminem
quam Phormiōnem. veniō ad hominem, ut dīcerem argentum opus esse#, T.
_Ph._ 591, _a shrewder man than Phormio I never saw, not I! I went to
him to tell him that I needed money_. #nēquam esse hominem et levem
sciēbam#, _Sest._ 22, _I knew the fellow was worthless and frivolous_.
2366. (1.) #is# refers to something named before or after: as,
#eius omnis ōrātiō versāta est in eō, ut scrīptum plūrimum valēre
oportēre dēfenderet#, _DO._ 1, 244, _his whole speech turned on the
contention that the written word should be paramount_. #Melitēnsis
Diodōrus est; is Lilybaeī multōs iam annōs habitat#, _V._ 4, 38,
_Diodorus is from Melita; he has lived many years at Lilybaeum_. For
other examples of is used to connect sentences, see 2129.
2367. With a connective, #is# denotes an important addition: as,
#vincula et ea sempiterna#, _C._ 4, 7, _imprisonment and that too
perpetual_. #annum iam audientem Cratippum idque Athēnīs#, _Off._ 1, 1,
_after a year’s study under Cratippus, and that too in Athens_. #erant
in eō plūrimae litterae nec eae volgārēs#, _Br._ 265, _he was a man of
very deep reading and that of no common sort either_.
2368. (2.) #is# indicates something explained or restricted by a
relative or indefinite, #quī#, #quīcumque#, #sī quis#: as,
#haec omnia is fēcī, quī sodālis Dolābellae eram#, _Fam._ 12, 14, 7,
_all this I did, I that was Dolabella’s bosom friend_ (1807). #ūnus ex
eō numerō quī ad caedem parātī erant#, S. _I._ 35, 6, _one of the number
that were ready to do murder_ (1804). #neque is sum quī mortis perīculō
terrear#, 5, 30, 2, _but I am not the man to be scared by danger of
death, no, not I_ (1818). #quīcumque is est, ē̆ī mē profiteor inimīcum#,
_Fam._ 10, 31, 3, _whoever he may be, I proclaim myself his enemy_
(1814). #cum ipse Aliēnus ex eā facultāte, sī quam habet, aliquantum
dētrāctūrus sit#, _Caecil._ 49, _seeing that even Alienus is to suppress
some part of that eloquence, if any he may have_. See also 1795, 1798.
For #id quod#, see 1811.
2369. For the use of #is# instead of a relative repeated in a different
case, see 1833.
2370. #is# sometimes is loosely used for the reflexive #sē# (2341); here
the point of view of the writer shows itself.
#Mīlēsiōs nāvem poposcit, quae eum Myndum prōsequerētur#, _V._ 1, 86,
_he asked the Milesians for a ship to escort him to Myndus_. #suōs omnēs
castrīs continuit ignēsque fierī prohibuit, quō occultior esset eius
adventus#, Caes. _C._ 3, 30, 5, _he confined his troops to camp and
forbade the kindling of fires, in order to keep his coming a greater
secret_.