[1492.] The perfect participle of deponents is sometimes used with a passive meaning. Some of the commonest of these participles are: adeptus, commentus, complexus, cōnfessus, ēmentītus, expertus, meditātus, opīnātus, pactus, partītus, testātus, &c., &c.
[MOOD.]
[THE INDICATIVE MOOD.]
[1493.] The indicative mood is used in simple, absolute declarations: as,
arma virumque canō, V. 1, 1, arms and the man I sing. leve fit quod bene fertur onus, O. A. 4, 2, 10, light gets the load that’s bravely borne.
[1494.] The negative used with the indicative is commonly nōn, not ([1443]). For other negative expressions, see [1445-1451].
[1495.] Certain verbs and verbal expressions denoting ability, duty, propriety, necessity, and the like, mostly with an infinitive, are regularly put in the indicative, even when the action of the infinitive is not performed.
This applies to declarations, questions, or exclamations: as, (a.) possum dē ichneumonum ūtilitāte dīcere, sed nōlō esse longus, DN. 1, 101, I might expatiate on the usefulness of the ichneumon, but I do not care to be long-winded. inter ferās satius est aetātem dēgere quam in hāc tantā immānitāte versārī, RA. 150, it would be better to pass your days in the midst of howling beasts than to live and move among such brutish men. (b.) stultī erat sperāre, Ph. 2. 23, it would have been folly to hope. quid enim facere poterāmus? Pis. 13, for what else could we have done? (c.) licuit uxōrem genere summō dūcere, Pl. MG. 680, I might have married a wife of high degree. nōn potuit pīctor rēctius dēscrībere eius fōrmam, Pl. As. 402, no painter could have hit his likeness more exactly. (d.) quantō melius fuerat prōmissum patris nōn esse servātum, Off. 3, 94, how much better it would have been, for the father’s word not to have been kept.