are antiquated forms for the corresponding persons of sim, and occur in the comic writers and in Lucretius. Instead of essem we have another form for the imperfect subjunctive, forem (likewise from fuo), in the singular and the third person plural. The infinitive fore belongs to the same root. Cicero rarely uses the form forem, but Livy frequently, especially in the sense of the conditional mood, "I should be." Other writers, especially the poets and Tacitus, use it in all respects like essem. The perfect fuvi, and the tenses derived from it, fūveram, fūvissem, fūvero, are other forms of fui, &c., and occur in the earliest poets; and in like manner we find, in the ancient language, escit, escunt, for erit and erunt. CHAPTER XLII. THE FOUR CONJUGATIONS. [§ 157.] IN the following table the terminations are separated from the root of the verb, which renders it easy to conjugate any other verb according to these models. The verb lego (see Chap. XL.) is irregular in the formation of its perfect, but it has been retained as an example of verbs of the third conjugation, because the very absence of any peculiar termination in the perfect is a safeguard against misunderstandings which might arise; for example, from duco, duxi; scribo, scripsi; or claudo, clausi. old Latin verb fuo, and in the sense of oriri, nasci. With this may be compared the Greek oów, and the verb to be in English, together with the The Sanscrit Celtic bydh, the Russian budu, and the Persian budemi. has preserved the whole of bhavami, whereas the cognate verbs are de fective in most other tongues.]-Am. Ed. Present, Sing. am-a, love thou. IMPERATIVE.t Plur. am-ate, love ye. am-anto, they shall love. Future, Sing. am-ato, thou shalt love. Plur. am-atōte, ye shall love. am-āto, he shall love. INFINITIVE. Pres. and Imperf. (or of an action still going on), am-āre, to love. Gerund. Gen. am-andi; Dat. am-ando; Acc. am-andum; Abl. am-ando. SUPINE. am-atum; am-atu. Pres. and Imperf. (of an action still going on), am-ans, loving. |