EXAMPLES OF USAGE OF PASSIVE VERBS. 162. Res verbis significantur. Roma, desereris. Aestus lunae motibus gubernantur. Amici nostri magno timore de nobis afficiuntur. Ipsi in hostium loco numeroque ducemini. Mari supero inferoque Italia insulae modo cingitur. Vera laus uni virtuti debetur. Caesaris muneribus multitudo imperita leniebatur. Frigidus in pratis cantando rumpitur anguis.-VIRG. Armatos vere appellamus, qui scutis telisque parati orna- Hannibal ad defendendam patriam ex Italia in Africam est revocatus. Non semper viator a latrone, nonnunquam etiam latro a viatore occiditur. DEPONENT VERBS. 163. Many Verbs in Latin have a Passive form with an Active meaning, sometimes transitive, as hortor, I exhort; sometimes intransitive, as morior, I am dying. They are called Deponents because they lay aside, as it were, the Active form. Such verbs are conjugated, according to the conjugations to which they belong, for the most part like the Passives amor, moneor, regor, audior. 164. Deponent Verbs.-Hortor, I exhort.-First Conjugation. Present, hortans. Past, hortatus. Future, hortaturus. Ger., hortandus. GERUNDS hortandi, hortando, hortandum. SUPINES-hortatum, hortatu. 165. Deponent Verbs.—Vereor, I fear.-Second Conjugation. S. 2. verêre or verētor; 3. verētor. P. 2. veremini; 3. verentor. |