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§491. Participles

The Perfect Participle of a few deponent verbs is used nearly in the sense of a Present.

Such are, regularly, ratus, solitus, veritus; commonly, arbitrātus, fīsus, ausus, secūtus, and occasionally others, especially in later writers:—

  • rem incrēdibilem ratī (Sall. Cat. 48), thinking the thing incredible.
  • īnsidiās veritus (B. G. 2.11), fearing an ambuscade.
  • cohortātus mīlitēs docuit (B. C. 3.80), encouraging the men, he showed.
  • īrātus dīxistī; (Mur. 62), you spoke in a passion.
  • ad pūgnam congressī (Liv. 4.10), meeting in fight.

J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.