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.