Chapter 498Allen and Greenough's Latin GrammarDickinson CollegeChristopher Francese
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The Future Participle (except
futūrus
and
ventūrus
) is rarely used in simple agreement with a noun, except by poets and later writers.
The future participle is chiefly used with the forms of
esse
(often omitted in the infinitive) in the Active Periphrastic Conjugation (see §
195
):—
morere, Diagorā, nōn enim in caelum
adscēnsūrus es(Tusc. 1.111)
,
die
,
Diagoras
,
for you are not likely to rise to heaven.
spērat adulēscēns diū
sē vīctūrum(Cat. M. 68)
,
the young man hopes to live long
(that he shall live long).
neque
petītūrus
umquam cōnsulātum vidērētur
(Off. 3.79)
,
and did not seem likely ever to be a candidate for the consulship.
With the past tenses of
esse
in the indicative, the future participle is often equivalent to the pluperfect subjunctive (§
517
.
d
). For
futūrum fuisse
, see §
589
.
b.