[ LESSON LX]
DEPONENT VERBS
[338.] A number of verbs are passive in form but active in meaning; as, hortor, I encourage; vereor, I fear. Such verbs are called deponent because they have laid aside (dē-pōnere, to lay aside) the active forms.
a. Besides having all the forms of the passive, deponent verbs have also the future active infinitive and a few other active forms which will be noted later. (Sec[§§ 375], [403.b].)
[339.] The principal parts of deponents are of course passive in form, as,
| Conj. I | hortor, hortārī, hortātus sum, encourage | |
| Conj. II | vereor, verērī, veritus sum, fear | |
| Conj. III | (a) | sequor, sequī, secūtus sum, follow |
| (b) | patior, patī, passus sum, suffer, allow | |
| Conj. IV | partior, partīrī, partītus sum, share, divide |
Learn the synopses of these verbs. (See [§ 493].) Patior is conjugated like the passive of capiō ([§ 492]).
[340.] PREPOSITIONS WITH THE ACCUSATIVE
The prepositions with the accusative that occur most frequently are
| ante, before apud, among circum, around contrā, against, contrary to extrā, outside of in, into, in, against, upon inter, between, among | intrā, within ob, on account of (quam ob rem, wherefore, therefore) per, through, by means of post, after, behind propter, on account of, because of trāns, across, over |