locus antiquus difficilis

[elduce]

I am reading the first passage, "Disillusionment", and I have come upon a word that I can not figure out:

Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire,
et quod vides perisse perditum ducas.

The word 'perisse' is proving a challenge. It looks like a perfect active infinitive, but for what verb I don't know.

Magna cum gratia,
El

[benissimus]

I am reading the first passage, "Disillusionment", and I have come upon a word that I can not figure out:

Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire,
et quod vides perisse perditum ducas.

The word 'perisse' is proving a challenge. It looks like a perfect active infinitive, but for what verb I don't know.

Magna cum gratia,
El

this is a contracted form for peri(v)isse, from pereo, perire, peri(v)i, peritum. you are correct in analyzing its form.