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while there are other verbs which resemble nouns, such as fraudator and nutritor. lectum may be ace. of lectus, bed, or supine or past part. pass. of legerc, to read ; sapiens may be pres. part. of sapere, to know, or an adj. = wise ; fraudator and nutritor are 2nd and 3rd pers. sing. fut. imper. pass. of fraudo and nutrio. Again itur in antiquam silvam Aen. vi. 179: They go into the ancient wood. is a peculiar usage. For there is no subject to serve as a starting point: fletur is a similar example. The passive may be used in different ways as for instance in panditur interea domus omnipotentis Olympi Aen. x. 1 Meanwhile the house of almighty Olympus is opened. and in totis usque adeo turbatur agris. Ecl. i. 11 There is such confusion in all the fields. Yet a third usage is found in urbs habitatur, whence we get phrases such as campus curritur and mare navigatur. Pransus and potus Having dined, having drunk. Active in sense, passive in form. have a meaning which does not correspond to their form. And what of those verbs which are only partially conjugated? Some (as for instance fero ) even suffer an entire change in the perfect. Others are used only in the third person, such as licet and piget, while some resemble nouns tending to acquire an adverbial meaning; for we say dictu and factu Supines. as we say noctu and diu, since these words are participial though quite different from dicto and facto.
