Questions tagged [deponent-verbs]
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Shouldn't this est be a sunt in this sentence?
This is a famous quote from Cicero:
Num unum diem postea L. Saturninum tribunum plebis et C.Servilium praetorem mors ac reipublicae poena remorata est?
The verb remorari is deponent, so the subjects ...
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Why is the verb of the main clause not in the infinitive in this oratio obliqua?
Caesar milites cohortatus est ne ea, quae accidissent, graviter ferrent neve his rebus terrentur
We have indirect speech, the main verb is a deponent verb who is in the perfect past but shouldn't it ...
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Why feminine is used in "haec locuta"?
The following sentence comes from lines 74–75 of chapter XXV of Lingua latina per se illustrata. Familia Romana, after Ariadna has said some words to Theseus:
Haec locūta, Ariadna Thēseō fīlum longum ...
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Defective verbs having both non-deponent and deponent forms
It seems like there are several verbs that have both deponent and non-deponent forms and they coincidentally are defective. So, for example, there is patio which has a deponent patior meaning the same ...
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Potior - Deponent verb with passive meaning?
I am working through Jenney's Ssecon-Year Latin wherein he has a digest of the Jason and the Argonauts story and I need to translate the following sentence:
Constituit Pelias Iasoni negotiam dare, ut ...
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When are deponent perfect forms used with a present meaning?
As Cerberus mentions in this answer:
With many (semi-)deponent verbs, the perfect participle often has a present meaning.
And in the comments:
I thought this was commonly known, but apparently not.
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Parsing "oblita carmina"
Vergil wrote (Eclogues IX.51–4), quoted by Draconis in this answer:
Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque. Saepe ego longos
cantando puerum memini me condere soles.
Nunc oblita mihi tot carmina: vox quoque ...
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How can we say "a forgotten war" in Latin?
How can we say "a forgotten war" in Latin?
You know what I'm really getting at: I'm asking "How to make a deponent passive in meaning?" but with a specific and puzzling example. ...
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Why is nominative instead of ablative absolute used in 'Ibi egressi Trojani'?
In LLPSI 2 'Roma Æterna', Chapter XLI 'Origines', it is written:
Ibi [Siciliâ] egressi Trojani, quibus ab immenso prope errore nihil præter arma et naves supererat, cum prædam ex agris agerent, ...
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The verb 'utor' in gerundive constructions
I was wondering about the logic of the usage of the verb utor in gerundive constructions. The following relevant quote is from Woodcock's (1959: 164) A New Latin Syntax: "one can say ad hanc rem ...
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Are future active participles of deponent verbs used in place of future passive participles? Why?
In form, nātūrus is a future active participle of the (deponent) verb nāscor – which otherwise only appears in passive forms – and is used to mean about to rise and, taken literally, about to be born, ...
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Future Imperative of Deponents: 3 or 4 existing forms?
For most verbs there are 4 future imperative forms, right?
Here an example:
But now I did research on deponents and found following table:
Now my question is if there are really only 3 forms of the ...
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Deponent verb participle gender
If we consider a deponent verb such as arbitrārī in the perfect tense, hence arbitrātus sum/es/est, is the participle arbitrātus supposed to be declined like a regular adjective? For example if one ...
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participium coniunctum vs. ablative absolute of transitive deponent verbs
I was wondering why the "active meaning" and the transitivity of deponent perfect participles like cohortatus in (1) are not naturally preserved in the Ablative Absolute in (2). Why is it ...
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What is the origin of the deponent verbs and their evolution in Romance languages?
How deponent (and semi-deponent) verbs appeared in Latin, and why?
How did they evolve in descend languages? They seem extincts in descend languages (why?) but there are probably specific structured ...
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