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EXAMPLES OF USAGE OF PASSIVE VERBS.

162. Res verbis significantur. Roma, desereris.

Aestus lunae motibus gubernantur.
Propter virtutem iure laudamur.

Amici nostri magno timore de nobis afficiuntur.
Corpora iuvenum labore firmantur.

Ipsi in hostium loco numeroque ducemini.

Mari supero inferoque Italia insulae modo cingitur.
Ut Romae consules, sic Carthagine quotannis annui bini
reges creabantur.

Vera laus uni virtuti debetur.

Caesaris muneribus multitudo imperita leniebatur.
Lycurgi temporibus traditur fuisse Homerus.
Sapientia omnes res humanae geruntur.

Frigidus in pratis cantando rumpitur anguis.-VIRG.
Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae.--Ov.
Milo magis de reipublicae salute quam de sua pertur-
batur.

Armatos vere appellamus, qui scutis telisque parati orna-
tique sunt.

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.

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Present, hortans. Past, hortatus. Future, hortaturus.

Ger., hortandus.

GERUNDS hortandi, hortando, hortandum.

SUPINES-hortatum, hortatu.

165. Deponent Verbs.—Vereor, I fear.-Second Conjugation.

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S. 2. verêre or verētor; 3. verētor. P. 2. veremini; 3. verentor.

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166. Deponent Verbs.-Utor, I use.-Third Conjugation.

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S. 2. utěre or utitor; 3. utitor. P. 2. utimini; 3. utuntor.

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167. Deponent Verbs.-Partior, I divide.-Fourth Conjugation.

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S. 2. partire or partitor; 3. partitor. P. 2. partimini; 3. partiuntor.

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