PASSIVE VOICE.

+------------------+---------------------+------------------------+

| _Mood._ | IND. & SUB. | IMPERATIVE. |

+------------------+-----------+---------+-----------+------------+

| _Number._ | SING. | PLUR. | SING. | PLUR. |

+------------------+-----------+---------+-----------+------------+

| _First person._ | -r | -mur | _not used_| _not used_ |

+------------------+-----------+---------+-----------+------------+

| _Second person._ | -ris, -re | [-minī] | -re, -tor | [-minī] |

+------------------+-----------+---------+-----------+------------+

| _Third person._ | -tur | -ntur | -tor | -ntor |

+------------------+-----------+---------+-----------+------------+

727. In the perfect indicative active, the second person singular ends

in #-tī#, and the third person plural in #-runt# for an older #-ront#,

or in #-re#. #-re# is most used in poetry and history, and by Cato and

Sallust; #-runt# by Cicero, and almost always by Caesar.

728. In the indicative #-m# is not used in the present (except in #sum#,

_am_, and #inquam#, _quoth I_), in the perfect or future perfect, or in

the future in #-bō#. #-s# is not used in #es# for #ess#, _thou art_, and

in #ēs#, _eatest_ (171, 1).

729. In inscriptions, #-d# sometimes stands for #-t# (149, 2) in the

third person singular, and sometimes #-t# is not used: as, FECID,

_made_, for _fēcit_; DEDE, _gave_, for #dedēt# or #dedit#. And other

forms of the third person plural of the indicative active are sometimes

used: as, Pisaurian DEDROT, DEDRO (with syncope, 111) for #dederunt#,

_gave_; EMERV, _bought_, for #ēmērunt#; once DEDERI, probably for

#dedēre# (856).

730. In the passive second person singular, Terence has always, Plautus

commonly #-re#; later it is unusual in the present indicative, except in

deponents; but in other tenses #-re# is preferred, especially in the

future #-bere#, by Cicero, #-ris# by Livy and Tacitus. The second person

plural passive is wanting; its place is supplied by a single participial

form in #-minī#, which is used without reference to gender, for gender

words and neuters alike (297).

731. Deponents have rarely #-mino#, in the imperative singular: as,

second person, #prōgredimino#, _step forward thou_ (Plaut.); in laws, as

third person: FRVIMINO, _let him enjoy_; or #-tō# and #-ntō# for #-tor#

and #-ntor#: as, #ūtitō#, _let him use_; #ūtuntō#, _let them use_. In a

real passive, #-ntō# is rare: as, CENSENTO, _let them be rated_.

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