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leo\, /iubeo\, in the present, imperfect, and future indicative, active and passive. _166._ Intransitive verbs, such as /maturo\, _I hasten_; /habito\, _I dwell_, do not have a passive voice with a personal subject. _167._ EXERCISES I. 1. Laudaris _or_ laudare, laudas, datur, dat. 2. Dabitur, dabit, videmini, videtis. 3. Vocabat, vocabatur, delebitis, delebimini. 4. Parabatur, parabat, curas, curaris _or_ curare. 5. Portabantur, portabant, videbimur, videbimus. 6. Iuberis _or_ iubere, iubes, laudabaris _or_ laudabare, laudabas. 7. Moveberis or movebere, movebis, dabantur, dabant. 8. Delentur, delent, parabamur, parabamus. II. 1. We prepare, we are prepared, I shall be called, I shall call, you were carrying, you were being carried. 2. I see, I am seen, it was being announced, he was announcing, they will order, they will be ordered. 3. You will be killed, you will kill, you move, you are moved, we are praising, we are being praised. 4. I am called, I call, you will have, you are cared for. 5. They are seen, they see, we were teaching, we were being taught, they will move, they will be moved. [Illustration: PERSEUS ANDROMEDAM SERVAT] _168._ PER'SEUS AND ANDROM'EDA First learn the special vocabulary, p. 288. Perseus filius erat Iovis,[2] maximi[3] deorum. De eo multas fabulas narrant poetae. Ei favent dei, ei magica arma et alas dant. Eis telis armatus et alis fretus ad multas terras volabat et monstra saeva delebat et miseris infirmisque auxilium dabat. Aethiopia est terra Africae. Eam terram Cepheus[4] regebat. Ei[5] Neptunus, maximus aquarum deus, erat iratus et mittit[6] monstrum saevum ad Aethiopiam. Ibi monstrum non solum latis pulchrisque Aethiopiae agris nocebat sed etiam domicilia agricolarum delebat, et multos viros, feminas, liberosque necabat. Populus ex agris fugiebat et oppida muris validis muniebat. Tum Cepheus magna tristitia commotus ad Iovis oraculum properat et ita dicit: "Amici mei necantur; agri mei vastantur. Audi verba mea, Iuppiter. Da miseris auxilium. Age monstrum saevum ex patria." [Footnote 2: /Iovis\, the genitive of /Iuppiter\.] [Footnote 3: Used substantively, _the greatest_. So below, l. 4, /miseris\ and /infirmis\ are used substantively.] [Footnote 4: Pronounce in two syllables, _Ce'pheus_.] [Footnote 5: /Ei\, _at him_, dative with /iratus\.] [Footnote 6: The present is often used, as in English, in speaking of a past action, i
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