Talk:timeo
It is demonstrably incorrect to say that this verb has no passive. Here are some examples:
Lucr. 1.111: aeternas...poenas...timendum [est]
Lucr. 3.41: morbos...esse timendos
Quint. Inst. 8.3.5: non etiam ipse fulgor timeretur
Quint. Inst. 4.2.25: si Cn. Pompeius...tamquam adversus ei timeretur
Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1.16.2: quid pro quoque timendum, aut a quoque timendum sit
Luc. 7.138, Sen. Med. 887: urbi timetur
Luc. 8.500: pila timentur Parthis
Martial 3.41: et timetur argentum
Martial 13.94: dente timetur aper
Martial 11.19: sus Calydonius timetur
It may be relatively rare, but it exists. The perfect passive system is apparently not found, the verb having no fourth principle part with which to form it.
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