W. M. Lindsay, Syntax of Plautus, IV. The Pronoun., para 23

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Table of Contents:

I. Colloquialisms. The Concords.

III. The Adjective.

VI. The Adverb.

VII. The Preposition.

VIII. The Conjunction.

IX. The Interjection.

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Ipse (W. Niemoeller: de pronominibus ‘ipse’ et ‘idem’ apud Plautum et Terentium. Halle, 1887) appears also in the form ipsus, a form appropriate to use with the Reflexive Pronoun, (see above, 1).

This Pronoun often bears the colloquial meaning of ‘master,’ e.g.

Aul. 356 “si a foro ipsus redierit”,
Cas. 790 “ego eo quo me ipsa misit”.

Issula ‘mistress’ in Cist. 450 “meae issula sua aedes egent” is Diminutive of that form which is so well known to us from Martial's pretty poem on the lapdog Issa ‘My Lady.’ On the comical Superlative ipsissumus, see above, III. 2

Syntax of Plautus. W. M. Lindsay. Anne Mahoney. edited for Perseus. Oxford. J. Parker and Co. 1907.

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