annīs LXXXVI ipsīs ante mē cōnsulem, Br. 61, exactly 86 years before my consulship. Kalendīs ipsīs Novembribus, C. 1, 8, on the 1st of November precisely. in ipsō vadō dēprehēnsus Indutiomarus interficitur, 5, 58, 6, right at the ford Indutiomarus is caught and killed. suprā ipsum balneum habitō, Sen. Ep. 56, 1, I live right over a bath.
[2384.] (6.) Of oneself, voluntarily, of one’s own motion.
valvae subitō sē ipsae aperuērunt, Div. 1, 74, the temple-door suddenly opened of itself. Catilīnam vel ēiēcimus vel ēmīsimus vel ipsum ēgredientem verbīs prōsecūtī sumus, C. 2, 1, we have driven Catiline out, or let him out, or, when he was going out of his own motion, wished him godspeed.
[The Interrogative Pronoun.]
uter and quis.
[2385.] uter, whether? which? is used in questions about two things; quis and quī, who? what? in questions about more than two, though sometimes loosely of two things.
uter est īnsānior hōrum? H. S. 2, 3, 102, which of these is the greater crank? praeclārē apud eundem est Platōnem, similiter facere eōs quī inter sē contenderent uter potius rem pūblicam administrāret, ut sī nautae certārent quis eōrum potissimum gubernāret, Off. 1, 87, in the same Plato is the excellent saying that for people to fall out with one another about which of two men should manage a state, were just as if the crew of a ship should quarrel about which of them should be pilot. ut quem velīs, nesciās, Att. 16, 14, 1, so that you don’t know which to choose, as between Octavian and Antony.
[2386.] quis and quid ask to have a thing named; quī and quod to have it described. But see [685].
quis Diōnem Syrācosium doctrīnīs omnibus expolīvit? nōn Platō? DO. 3, 139, who refined Syracusan Dio with learning of every sort? was it not Plato? quid rīdēs, H. S. 2, 5, 3, why dost thou laugh? ([1144]). quis fuit igitur?:: iste Chaerea.:: quī Chaerea? T. Eu. 823, who was he then?:: your precious Chaerea.:: what Chaerea? quem frūctum petentēs scīre cupimus illa quō modō moveantur? Fin. 3, 37, with what practical end in view do we seek to know how yon bodies in the sky keep in motion?