If you do, take care that he does not blow you up one of these fine days.
These demonstrative pronouns, hic, iste, and ille are thus distinguished: hic points out the nearest to me; iste him who is by you; ille him who is at a distance from both of us.
In making game of the Syntax, we regard them as pointers.
When hic and ille are referred to two things or persons going before, hic generally relates to the latter, ille to the former, as
Richardus Thomasque suum de more bibebant,
Ebrius hic vappis, ebrius ille mero:
Both Dick and Tom caroused away like swine,
Tom drunk with swipes, and Dicky drunk with wine.
The Construction of Verbs.
The Nominative Case after the Verb.
Verbs substantive, as sum, I am, forem, I might be, fio, I am made, existo, I am; verbs passive of calling, as nominor, I am named, appellor, I am called, dicor, I am said, vocor, I am called, nuncupor, I am named, and the like to them, as videor, I am seen, habeor, I am accounted, existimor, I am thought, have the same cases before and after them, as