[DEFECTIVE VERBS.]
[805.] (1.) Some verbs have only a few forms: as,
inquam, quoth I ([760]); aiō, avouch ([786]). See also apage, avaunt, get thee behind me, cedo, give, tell, fārī, to lift up one’s voice, havē̆ or avē̆ and salvē, all hail, ovat, triumphs, and quaesō, prithee, in the dictionary.
[806.] (2.) Many verbs have only the present system; such are:
[807.] (a.) sum, am ([745]); ferō, carry ([780]); fīō, grow, become ([788]).
[808.] (b.) Some verbs in -ere: angō, throttle, bītō, go, clangō, sound, claudō or claudeō, hobble, fatīscō, gape, glīscō, wax, glūbō, peel, hīscō, gape, temnō, scorn, vādō, go, vergō, slope. Also many inceptives ([834]): as, dītēscō, get rich, dulcēscō, get sweet, &c., &c.
[809.] (c.) Some verbs in -ēre: albeō, am white, aveō, long, calveō, am bald, cāneō, am gray, clueō, am called, hight, flāveō, am yellow, hebeō, am blunt, immineō, threaten, lacteō, suck, līveō, look dark, maereō, mourn, polleō, am strong, renīdeō, am radiant, squāleō, am scaly, ūmeō, am wet.
[810.] (d.) Some verbs in -īre: balbūtiō, sputter, feriō, strike, ganniō, yelp, ineptiō, am a fool, superbiō, am stuck up, tussiō, cough. Also most desideratives ([375]).
[811.] Many verbs are not attended by a perfect participle, and lack in consequence the perfect passive system, or, if deponent, the perfect active system.
[812.] (3.) Some verbs have only the perfect system: so particularly coepī, have begun, began ([120]); and with a present meaning, ōdī, have come to hate, hate; and meminī, have called to mind, remember. The following is a synopsis of these three verbs: