1. Deponent verbs are conjugated in the passive and do not have active forms except that they have participles of both voices: sequens, secuturus and secutus, sequendus. The perfect participle of deponents is usually active in sense, but sometimes passive. The future infinitive is always active in form.

They are translated as active or middle (reflexive). The gerundive is passive in meaning and is found only in transitive verbs and intransitive verbs used impersonally. Most deponents are intransitive or middle.

2. Principal Parts

2. vereor, ver ri, veritus/-a sum fear

3. labor, labi, lapsa/-us sum slip, glide

3. Deponents used in Aeneid Book I: (I) = first conjugation (II) = second conjugation, etc.  And a selection of Pliny's deponents.

• adfor (I) speak to, address
• adloquor (alloquor), -i, -locutus/a sum speak to, address
• adnitor, -i, nixus/a sum toil, heave
• semideponent audeo, - re, ausus/a sum dare
• auguror (1) prophecy
• auspicor (1) take the auspices
• complector, -i, complexus/a sum embrace
• cunctor (1) delay
• percunctor inquire
• experior, -iri, expertus/a sum try
• fungor -i, functus/a sum perform
  • defungor perform, die
  • perfungtor perform, undergo
• fruor, -i, fructus/a sum enjoy
• semideponent gaudeo, - re gavisus/a sum rejoice
• gradior, -i, gressus/a sum step, go
  • aggredior, -i, aggressus sum approach, undertake
  • ingredior enter
• gratulor (1) congratulate
• hortor (1) exhort
  • adhortor (1) exhort, encourage
• iaculor (I) hurl
• imaginor (1) visualize
• insequor, -i, -secutus/a sum follow, ensue, pursue
• introgredior, -i, -gressus/a sum step into, enter
• invehor, -i, -vectus/a sum (passive of inveho used as a deponent) dive on
• labor, -i, lapsus/a sum slip, glide, swoop elabor glide out, slip away
• laetor (I) rejoice
• meditor (I) ponder, intend
• miror (I) marvel, wonder at
• misereor, - ri feel pity
• miseror (I) pity
• molior, -iri, molita/us sum toil at, plot, scheme, build, wield, cause
• morior -i mortuus/a sum die
• moror (I) delay, detain
  • commoror (1) linger
• nascor, -i, nata/us sum be born, arise, grow
• nitor, -i, nixus/a, nisus/a sum lean upon, rely, strive
  • innitor lean, depend on
• opperior, -iri, opperta/us sum await
• ordior, -iri, orsa/us sum begin
• orior, -iri, ortus sum arise, spring
• partior, -iri, partita/us sum divide
• pascor, -i, pasta/us sum feed, graze
• patior, pati, passa/us sum suffer, bear, allow
• perlabor, -i, -lapsa/us sum glide over
• polliceor (II) promise
• potior (IV) seize, get possession of, gain (+ abl.)
• proficiscor, -i, profecta/us sum set out, depart
• queror, -i, questa/us sum complain
• recordor (1) remember
• scrutor (1) examine
• sector (1) pursue
• insector attack
• sequor, -i, secuta/us sum follow
  • prosequor accompany, present
  • subsequor follow
• semideponent soleo, - re, solitus sum be accustomed, be used to
• solor (I) console, mitigate
• consolor (1) comfort
• speculor (I) watch
• tueor -eri, tuita/us [tuta/-us] (II) watch, guard, protect, defend
• utor, uti, usa/us sum use (+ abl.)
• vagor (1) wander
  • pervagor rove over
• venor (1) hunt
• vereor -eri, verita/us sum fear
• versor (1) be in, engage in, practice
  • adversor (1) resist
  • obversor hover before, appear