Pro Caelio - Chapter XIX.46 (W. Englert ed.) - exercise 1

exercise: analysis of verbs
exercise type: fill in the blanks

An vos aliam causam esse ullam putatis cur in tantis praemiis eloquentiae, tanta voluptate dicendi, tanta laude, tanta gratia, tanto honore, tam sint pauci semperque fuerint, qui in hoc labore versentur? Obterendae sunt omnes voluptates, relinquenda studia delectationis, ludus, iocus, convivium, sermo paene est familiarium deserendus. Qua re in hoc genere labor offendit homines a studioque deterret, non quo aut ingenia deficiant aut doctrina puerilis.


Write person, number, tense, voice and mood of the following verbs used by Cicero in the passage above (white box). Be sure to use the following abbreviation system: do not write a dot after the abbreviation and do not forget the space between each of them (no commas!). Example: 3 s impf act subj (diceret)

For person: first = 1 | second = 2 | third = 3
For number: singular = s | plural = p
For number: present = pr | imperfect = impf | future = fut | perfect= pf | pluperfect = ppf | futureperfect = fpf
For voice: active = act | passive = pass | deponent = dep
For mood: indicative = ind | subjunctive = subj | imperative = imp


1. putatis

2. sint

3. fuerint

4. versentur

5. offendit

6. deterret

7. deficiant