IMPERFECT.

Sing. pot-ěram, I was able, or | Sing. pos-sem, I was, might,

Sing. pot-ui, I was, have been, | Sing. pot-uěrim, I may have

Sing. pot-uěram, I had been | Sing. pot-uissem, I had, should,

FUTURE PERFECT.

INFINITIVE.

Present, pos-se, to be able.

Perfect, pot-uisse, to have been able.

PARTICIPLE.

Potens, is used only as an adjective='powerful.'
The imperative does not occur.

185. The verb edo (I eat) may be conjugated regularly after the third conjugation, perf. edi, sup. esum, inf. edere; but in several of its forms a syncope is sometimes employed, in consequence of which they become like the corresponding tenses of the verb sum. The following are the tenses in which this resemblance occurs:

INDICATIVE.

PRESENT.

SUBJUNCTIVE.

IMPERFECT.

Sing. edo, edis or és, edit or ēst. | Sing. ederem or essem, ederes or

esses, ederet or esset.

Plur. edimus, editis or estis, Plur. ederemus or ēssemus,

In the passive, the syncope takes place only in editur, estur, and ederetur, essetur.

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The same syncope occurs in the compounds of edo- -as comedo, comedis comēs, comedit coměst, comedere = comēsse, and so on. The e in all these syncopated forms was pronounced as long by nature, and not only by position.

186. The irregularity of the verb fero (I bring or bear), which properly belongs to the third conjugation, consists in its taking its perfect tuli and its supine latum from different words. The tenses derived from these two forms, however, are perfectly regular; but in the other tenses an occasional irregularity occurs, which arises from the omission of the connecting vowel between the stem and the termination:

ACTIVE VOICE.

SUBJUNCTIVE.

Sing. fer-o, fer-s, fer-t.

PRESENT.

INDICATIVE.

Sing. fer-am, fer-as, fĕr-at.

Plur. fer-i-mus, fer-tis, fer- Plur. fer-a-mus, fer-ātis, fér

Sing. fer-e-bam, fer-ē-bas, fer- | Sing. fer-rem, fer-res, fer-ret.

ĕ-bat.

Plur. fer-e-bamus, fer-e-batis, Plur. fer-remus, fer-retis, fer

fer-e-bant.

Sing. fer-am, fer-és, fér-et.

FUTURE.

Plur. fĕr-ēmus, fĕr-ētis, fèr

ent.

Sing. tul-i, tul-isti, tŭl-it.

Plur. tul-imus, tul-istis, ērunt, or ĕre.

Sing. tul-ěram, ĕras, ĕrat.

rent.

Sing. la-turus (a, um) sim, sis,

sit.

Plur. la-turi (ae, a) simus, sitis, sint.

PERFECT.

Sing. tul-ĕrim, tul-ĕris, tul ĕrit.

tul- Plur. tul-ĕrimus, tūl-ērītis, tūlĕrint.

PLUPERFECT.

Sing. tul-issem, isses, isset. Plur. tul-ĕrāmus, ērātis, ĕrant. | Plur. tul-issemus, issetis, issent.

PASSIVE VOICE.

INDICATIVE.

SUBJUNCTIVE.

PRESENT.

Sing. fer-or, fer-ris, fer-tur. Sing. fer-ar, aris, ātur.
Plur. fer-i-mur, fer-i-mini, fer- Plur. fer-āmur, āmini, antur.

u-ntur.

IMPERFECT.

Sing. fer-e-bar, bāris (or bāre), | Sing. fer-rer, fer-rēris (or

bātur.

rére), fer-retur.

bāmini, Plur. fer-remur, fer-rēmini,

Sing. fer-ar, eris, ētur.

fer-rentur.

FUTURE.

The subjunctive is wanting.

PERFECT.

Plur. fer-emur, ëmini, entur.

Sing. la-tus (a, um) sum, es, | Sing. lā-tus (a, um) sim, sis,

Plur. lā-ti (ae, a) sumus, estis, | Plur. lā-ti (ae, a) simus, sitis,

Sing. lā-tus (a, um) eram, eras, | Sing. la-tus (a, um) essem,

erat.

&c.

Plur. la-ti (ae, a) eramus, Plur. la-ti (ae, a) essemus, &c.

All the compounds of fero are conjugated like the simple verb-as affero (from ad and fero), attuli, allatum; aufero (from ab and fero), abstuli, ablatum, auferre; offero (from ob and fero), obtuli, oblatum; suffero (from sub and fero,) sustuli, sublatum (used as the perfect and supine of the verb tollo); differo (from dis and fero), distuli, dilatum ; defero, detuli, delatum; circumfero, circumtuli, circumlatum; transfero, transtuli, translatum.

187. Volo (I will) is a simple verb, but nōlo (I will not) is compounded of ne or non, and volo; and malo (I will rather) of magis or mage, and volo. They are irregular only in the tenses formed from the present indicative and the infinitive.

võl-uĕram, uĕras, &c. nōl-uĕram, uĕras, &c. māl-uēram, ueras.

võl-uĕrim, ueris, &c. nõl-uĕrim, uēris, &c. māluĕrim, uĕris, &c.

mal-lem, es, et, &c.