![]() It should be observed that poets sometimes use the termination ērunt with the e short-as stetĕrunt for stetērunt. In these forms the v is never thrown out. In the third person plural of the perfect indicative active we very often find the termination ēre for ērunt-as amavēre, monuĕre, legere, audivēre, for amavērunt, monuērunt, legerunt, audivērunt. But all such forms occur only in early Latinity and in poetry.ģ. Similar forms arepercusti for percussisti, abstraxe for abstraxisse, surrexe for surrexisse, erepsemus for erepsissemus. In cases where, by this process, three s or two s and one other consonant would meet together, one s is omitted-as abscessem for abscessissem, dixe for dixisse, accestis for accessistis, consumpset for consumpsisset. Perfects of the third conjugation ending in si (ai), and the tenses formed from them, sometimes throw out si when it is followed by s- as evasti for evasisti, dixti for dixisti, divisse for divisisse. Similar contractions occur in the first and second conjugations-as donāt for donavit, enarramus for enarravimus, flemus for flevimus.Ģ. A few of the perfects ending in iit (for ivit) are contracted by poets into it, whereby they acquire the appearance of the third person singular of the present-as desit, abit, obit, perit, edormit, for desiit, abiit, obiit, periit, edormiit. Before the termination it the v is rarely omitted, and, generally speaking, only in poetry- as audiit for audivit, muniit for munivit. In those forms where the v is followed by e, the v is thrown out without any contraction taking place-as audierunt, audieram, desierunt, definieram, quaesieram, for audiverunt, audiveram, desiverunt, definiveram, quaesiveram. In verbs making their perfect in (i)vi, the v is simply thrown out when s follows-thus audivisse, audivissem, become audiisse, audiissem but here, too, the best writers contract the two i into one-as audisse, audissem so also petisse or petiisse, from peto, perf. ![]() Perfects ending in (o)vi are generally not contracted, and the only verbs in which a contraction does occur are novi (from nosco) and the compounds of moveo-as nosti, norunt, noram, norim, for novisti, noverunt, noveram, noverim (but we never find noro for novero) commosse for commovisse, from commoveo.Ģ. So also siris, sirit, for siveris, siverit, from sino, I allow. nevisti, nevistis, neverunt deleveram, decrevisse. nesti, nestis, nerunt deleram, decresse, for flevistis, fleverunt, fleveram, &c. The same is the case with verbs of the second and third conjugations forming their perfects in (ē)vi-as flestis, flērunt, flēram, &c. When in the first conjugation vi or ve is followed by r or s, the v is omitted, and the a of the stem is contracted with i or e into ā-as amasti, amasse, amārim, amārunt, amāram, amaro, for the ordinary forms amavisti, amavisse, amaverim, amaverunt, amaveram, and amavero.
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