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Again
if we turn to verbs, who is so ill-educated as not to
be familiar with their various kinds and qualities,
their different persons and numbers. Such subjects belong to the elementary school and the
rudiments of knowledge. Some, however, will
find points undetermined by inflexion somewhat
perplexing. For there are certain participles, about
which there may be doubts as to whether they are
really nouns or verbs, since their meaning varies
with their use, as for example lectum and sapiens,
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